Bill Siwicki

The health system's chief analytics officer discusses creating a rigorous data quality program for reliable and actionable insights, and the importance of developing an innovation ecosystem.

Trained on vast datasets, machine learning applications can spot trends and predict patient outcomes. A researcher details how these new approaches are giving nurses the evidence they need to make more informed decisions and deliver higher-quality care.

Clinical outcomes have shown 82% of patients experienced lowered blood pressure via remote patient monitoring at the health system, with severely hypertensive patients seeing a significant decrease after 90 days on the program.

Robert Slepin, a longtime IT exec at provider organizations who's now a top consultant at Epic, discusses his role, and how it helps the company prioritize problem solving in electronic health record deployments.

The provider saw a 22% decrease in one type of denial and an 18% decrease in another. Those improvements have resulted in more than 30 hours per week in eliminated work for follow-up staff.

Veronica Walk, senior director analyst, healthcare and life sciences, at the consulting giant offers an end-of-the-week look at the emerging technologies at the conference that provider organization C-suite executives must grasp.

A selection of the announcements made in the exhibit hall this week – from Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, CenTrak, DT Research, Innovaccer, MDClone and MedeAnalytics.

"As an industry, we've digitized – for the most part – the healthcare record. Now it's time to adopt digital health innovation to give people the experience they expect and see in other industries," says the CEO of Rhapsody.

A top executive at Rauland discusses the effort at HIMSS24's Interoperability Pavilion and dives into technologies and trends.

The program is designed to accelerate digital health technologies and enable innovation to improve patient care.