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Digital tools are improving the clinician experience in Seoul, say Dr. Wonchul Cha, CMIO and director of the Digital Innovation Center at Samsung Medical Center, and Dr. Meong Hi Son, vice director of its Digital Transformation Center.

Combined practice management tools have also helped the applied behavioral analysis clinic, which serves a healthcare desert, increase client progress and enhance staff efficiency.

Discussing takeaways from the recent HIMSS23 Nursing Informatics Forum, Tony Black, director of federal healthcare for Kyndryl, talks about the demands nurses face and how technology can improve the way they deliver care.

There are ways technology can help ease clinician burden. Kathleen McGrow, chief nursing information officer at Microsoft and a 2023 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, explains how.

Health tech incubator MATTER embeds health equity into its initiatives and encourages its partner companies to do the same, says Olyvia Phillips, its manager of equity initiatives.

Standardizing information capture, including a universal patient identification, can enhance data quality while eliminating the 20% record duplication rate facing healthcare organizations, says Gregg Church, president of 4medica.

FiveP's Baret, a messaging solution that came out of the pandemic, has been scaled to promote efficient clinical communications at Austin Health.

Verana Health uses large amounts of structured and unstructured de-identified patient data, including medical images, to inform value-based care models, explains Lawrence Whittle, CCO.

The CIO of the NYC-based federally qualified health center tells the story of going from no telemedicine to a thriving virtual care business.

With HIMSS23 Europe approaching in June, Joana Feijó, business development director for Health Cluster Portugal, discusses digital health innovation and the development of a technology framework for hospitals, which will be showcased in Lisbon.