Operations

The goal of digital transformation in healthcare must be to make patients' engagement with the care journey easier, claim Mona Baset, VP of digital services for Intermountain Health, and Kyruss Chief Revenue Officer Brandon Spring.

Nathan Shepard, Azalea's VP of product, discusses how his company is helping rural providers improve patient care and profitability.

The University of Rochester's Chief Digital Health Officer Michael Hasselberg and Justin Norden, a partner at GSR Ventures, share how a health system and a venture firm can help each other in the current economic environment.

Lightbeam Health Solutions president Jerry Shultz and CareSignal CEO Blake Marggraff describe recent Lightbeam moves to provide its customers with solutions that improve quality of care while reducing cost of care.

David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, discusses how Medicare Advantage evaluates how well providers manage each patient. Care teams must be proactive in determining what the individual patient needs.

Calum Yacoubian, director of healthcare strategy at IQVIA, outlines natural language processing use cases, such as aggregating data for population health initiatives and supporting rare disease diagnoses for precision medicine.

Telemedicine and digital health expert Dr. Laura Purdy shares how interoperability in virtual care and digital health technologies can improve care delivery for patients and providers, and decrease disparities in health equity.

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare, talks about how virtual providers free up clinicians' time by handling "triple R" – routine, repeatable and rules-based – care visits that can occupy more than 50% of a physician's day.

Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, highlights announcements from the HIMSS23 cybersecurity forum aimed at helping healthcare practices improve protection as phishing becomes more sophisticated.

Lisa Stephenson, CNIO at Houston Methodist, talks about her work with the HIMSS nursing informatics committee and how informaticists help healthcare leaders focus on adopting technology that will reduce, not add to, clinicians' burdens.