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Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has nearly 40 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

By Bill Siwicki | 01:10 pm | October 04, 2019
The health system used a new data management platform to combine 15 different provider databases, better enabling patients to schedule appointments online and through a new Patient Engagement Center.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:19 pm | October 03, 2019
Seven administrative and clinical executives from across the health system discuss efforts from an electronic ICU to an AI symptom checker to ‘smart hospital’ tech.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:43 pm | October 02, 2019
At the HIMSS Connected Health Conference, Bob Coughlin, president and CEO of Mass Biotech Council, offers his expert view of how these two areas of healthcare will impact each other in the future.
By Bill Siwicki | 02:02 pm | October 01, 2019
Epic calculates vital signs and triggers alerts sent to caregivers by the communications platform. The sepsis program saves 40 lives a year at University of Utah Health.
Pophealth
By Bill Siwicki | 02:13 pm | September 30, 2019
The industry already has seen some startups working with social determinants of health. Their number will only increase as healthcare moves to value-based care and needs more data.
By Bill Siwicki | 01:42 pm | September 26, 2019
The massive undertaking, based around a new cost accounting system, is all part of a strategy to prepare for value-based reimbursement.
Pophealth
By Bill Siwicki | 02:06 pm | September 25, 2019
The Health Center Controlled Network’s member organizations serve a disproportionate number of low-income and underrepresented patients, so social determinants of health data is an important component of the mix.
Interoperability
By Bill Siwicki | 02:33 pm | September 24, 2019
Organization’s chief discusses these issues in advance of a free informational teleconference September 26 as part of National Health IT Week.
By Bill Siwicki | 04:21 pm | September 23, 2019
One cybersecurity expert offers his perspective on the changing threat landscape faced by CIOs and CISOs, and gives some tips for more effective threat detection and response.
Pophealth
By Bill Siwicki | 12:43 pm | September 20, 2019
Combining psychiatric and primary care data, including social determinants of health, has also helped reduce ER spending from $2,265 per patient per month to just $875.