Bill Siwicki
Analytics
Emerging technologies will start to gain some firmer footing in the year ahead, moving out of pilot testing and into production environments.
Accountable Care
Experts point to ONC’s own challenge as evidence that algorithms are a more effective approach to the patient record matching problem.
Electronic Health Records
While EHRs and data security get all the attention, there are more immediate opportunities for the digital ledger technology.
Electronic Health Records
The system boosted its overall rating by more than 15 points in just one quarter.
Precision Medicine
More and more vendors are introducing tools for specific precision medicine capabilities and that makes more work for hospital IT shops that support them.
The president has selected Alex Azar, a George W. Bush Administration alum, to kick-start Obamacare repeal, lower drug prices and further deregulation.
Electronic Health Records
Data from electronic health records combined with other technologies like analytics can help pinpoint patients at risk and encourage caregivers to intervene before a fall occurs.
Telehealth
Community Health System says the program means patients are quickly able to move out of the emergency department and on to the proper level of care.
Telehealth
The medical center jumped in after Hurricane Maria to deliver care services in what it calls a proof-of-concept for using telehealth tools in emergency response.
Precision Medicine
A prominent academic medical center, a supercomputer and a California start-up came together to determine the best regimen for a patient after doctors had tried four previous times.