Innovation Pulse
Hospitals should look to automotive, search and business process management realms for lessons learned about artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing.
With algorithms and analytics, first-moving health orgs are reaping alternative payment models to reduce readmissions, incentivize physicians to coordinate care and improve patient satisfaction.
Hospitals are beginning to think big about patient experience, which starts in people’s homes, communities and even workplaces.
Cerner, athenahealth and eClinicalWorks said they are incorporating new data types, such as social determinants, population health and precision medicine to make EHRs more “comprehensive.”
The potential to harness this data to both make people healthier and help hospitals and payers save money is enormous.
Yes, health entities need to be held responsible for protecting patient data but public shaming isn’t making that happen. There’s a better way forward.
Security frameworks and threat intelligence sharing already exist that hospitals can put to work to defeat cybercriminals.
San Mateo County Health System incorporated social determinants of health into its patient records to reduce ‘epistrophic’ events among its vulnerable population.
From a job killing acronym to tech trends they're sick of hearing, prominent technologists share the least-liked, most-overused idioms, slang and jargon.
Leading hospitals deploying secure messaging are finding that once the technology is in use, it opens up new doors to more innovation.