COVID-19
CEO Prof. Eugene Kandel says it's relatively easy to collect needs and bring them together once the ecosystem is connected in a single depository.
This week's top stories include AdventHealth lamenting $260 million in losses, a study finding ICD-10 codes may miss COVID-19-related symptoms, and USPS service delays hitting some mail-order pharmacies harder than others.
Dr. Elizabeth Marshall, director of clinical analytics at Linguamatics, an IQVIA company, discusses the data management and workflow challenges during COVID-19 – and describes how natural language processing can help.
During FutureMed 2020, Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist, said he supports the country's decision to keep schools open with social distancing guidance in place.
Marc Probst, longtime CIO at Intermountain Healthcare and new CIO at ELLKAY, also discusses digital transformation and the cost challenges facing healthcare now – as well as the IT innovation he sees emerging from the COVID-19 crisis.
This week's top stories include the ONC offering new funding for HIE innovation, a decline in healthcare M&A transactions and Medtronic's plans to buy a connected insulin pen startup.
Lightbeam Health Solutions Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kent Locklear discusses the challenge and opportunity COVID-19 presents for population health.
Sue Willman, SVP and GM of Pharmacy and Data & Analytic Services at EXL, says healthcare providers – whether addressing gaps in care, building dashboards for capacity planning or tackling fraud, waste and abuse – depend on data now more than ever.
Cybersecurity expert Randy Bradley says outside-the-four-walls threats include makeshift triage units, but you can still move wisely even if you are moving fast.
Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, discusses how disinformation and diverging containment strategies have been contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in America.