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Frank Cutitta, founder and CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab and a COVID-19 survivor, describes how his experience spurred him to tackle the loneliness and complexity of healthcare.
In this edition of "Workplace Re-Entry in the Healthcare Industry," Zoom CIO Advisor Bill Shickolovich and U Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia discuss how the healthcare industry is handling the shift to work from home.
Mary Langowski, CEO of Solera Health, says payers want to know how to change the experience to make access easy for beneficiaries.
Technology has proved to be a blessing for consumers who today have a plethora of care options and improved access to care. This is not the case with frontline providers who continue to suffer from burnout and fatigue.
Wellforce's chief digital officer and system CIO discusses the strategic opportunities – and the challenges – of moving the health system's entire Epic infrastructure and app ecosystem to AWS cloud.
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Informaticists bring improvement to every aspect of care and allow nurses to spend more time with patients and families, says Kassaundra McKnight-Young, senior clinical informaticist at the Truman Medical Center.
Maintaining a large infrastructure requires substantial investment. IT leadership must also have an understanding of business plans for growth and scale.
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Whende Carroll says she founded Nurse Evolution to educate nurses about health IT, advanced data analytics and innovation concepts in nursing.
Even when things go back to some semblance of normal and care teams return to their regular processes, burnout will still be felt. It's up to healthcare leaders to help manage workplace stress.
This week's top stories include workers at Tenet Healthcare hospitals securing better pay after striking, Inspiration4 testing the impact of spaceflight on the body, and scientists highlighting gaps in telemedicine.