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Healthcare organizations must urge the Senate to pass critical telehealth legislation, and enact at least a two-year extension of the important PHE-era policies while working toward a permanent solution.

At Penn Medicine, agile methods have been adopted by a number of information technology teams, including teams that support its enterprise EHR, data analytics, IT operations and systems administration.

It's crucial we recognize that what worked well before may not work well today. And it's essential to anticipate, prepare for, respond to and adapt to incremental change.

Successful healthcare chief information officers know that engaging stakeholders, setting direction and creating a positive culture are essential tasks. How they approach them is what matters.

As an industry we've bought into the idea for too long that we can simply buy some cybersecurity tools and be safe.

As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts.

Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.

While we can't afford to have redundancy in every situation due to budgets and application architectures, we can partner to understand the core technology needs and design to minimize downtime for business and clinical units.

When employees say yes to unsolicited push notifications, they effectively allow a malicious actor to bypass the controls offered by two-factor authentication – and open a new vulnerability for phishing attacks, or "phushing."

AI, augmented reality, biomedical sensors and beyond – by mapping out a clear vision now, we can widen our ambitions and improve modernization strategies to better harness the vast potential offered by technology advances.