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There is more technology than ever to support healthcare transformation, says Penn Medicine Chief Information Officer Mike Restuccia. Partnerships between health system operations and IT teams will make all the difference in how it's put to work.

Done right, more widespread adoption of remote patient monitoring will offer breakthrough innovations where healthcare delivery can be improved, clinician workloads can be right-sized and better patient outcomes can be achieved, an expert says.

Together, talent and technology can help to solve Southeast Asia’s nursing shortage by relieving the pressure on healthcare workers, improving the nurse and patient experience and getting people the care they deserve.

Maxime Vermeir, senior director of AI strategy at ABBYY, an intelligent automation company, offers an in-depth analysis of an AI boom he sees coming in the year ahead.

Hospitals also worry about the lack of digital talent and the incompatibility of various digital solutions. 

"AI can fundamentally change the physician experience with an EHR by making it an intelligent partner for the clinician," says Paul Brient, chief product officer of athenahealth.

William Lewkowski, vice president of HCTec, a healthcare consulting firm, discusses a distributed landscape for healthcare and health IT and new technologies leaders at provider organizations must consider.

Also, regional health services in Western Australia are rolling out Magentus' oncology patient record.

One industry observer notes the massive digital transformation in how care is accessed and the historic increases in cyberattacks have been pushing more provider organizations to expect much more from their IT vendors.

As a result of an investigation into overdue financial reports and threats of Nasdaq delisting, Veradigm CEO Richard Poulton and CFO Leah Jones resigned at the request of the company's board on Friday. The IT vendor also announced a billing AI tool.