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This week's top stories include Google disbanding its health division as VP Dr. David Feinberg leaves Google Health to serve as Cerner's CEO, and the FDA giving full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

The "secret sauce" to effective care is for providers to imagine what the patient is going through and understand the real pain points before implementing a technology touch, says Dr. Adrienne Boissy, chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic.

Watch interviews, reports and insights from industry insiders and luminaries during Day 3 of livestreaming from the 2021 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas.

Watch interviews, reports and insights from industry insiders and luminaries during Day 2 of livestreaming from the 2021 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas.

Watch interviews, reports and insights from industry insiders and luminaries during Day 1 of livestreaming from the 2021 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas.

Bob Katter, president of First Databank, offers hospital and health system IT leaders four ways to help clinicians deal with the many medication decision support alerts they receive daily.

John Borkowski, data officer at Workday, discusses CIOs' role in diversity, equity and inclusion and how they must drive culture from the top down.

At Penn Medicine, preparing leaders to successfully manage talent and remote work productivity has been essential – and has positioned it well to provide more training opportunities going forward.

To lessen their risk of being a victim of a ransomware attack, healthcare organizations should implement a security awareness program, says Brian O'Donnell, vice president at Carahsoft.

The COVID-19 pandemic shifted IT resources away from regular EHR upgrades at many provider organizations. Douglas Herr, VP of EHR services at DeliverHealth, offers advice for CIOs who are behind with their EHRs.