Tom Sullivan

No, that’s not a joke. It’s also about economic solvency and workforce productivity.

Personalized care can reduce costs, prevent diseases, and bring joy back to doctors, but the healthcare system needs to learn how to adopt emerging technologies more quickly.

Mount Sinai has a “little big data group,” LifeBridge and Thomas Jefferson also foster clinical innovation teams, and they all say experimentation, evidence, rigor and risk are needed to succeed.

Ezras Choilim chose the embattled vendor for its cloud-based electronic health record and population health services.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT needs more funding than the $38 million Trump allocated to advance interoperability, EHR usability and patient safety, a Pew official said.

A wave of consolidation is coming, industry analysts say, and leading electronic health records platforms will emerge as more appealing to hospitals than standalone options.

With the goal of enrolling 10,000 Americans by early autumn, Precision Medicine Initiative program head Eric Dishman said that NIH intends to scale up quickly.

USCG ranked interoperability with DoD and VA as a priority while Cerner, meanwhile, has been testing its software on submarines.

Getting meaningful use and even CMS out of the way will pave the road for hospitals to find innovative new business models that are quickly becoming critical to the grand vision, hospital CIO, consultant say.

EHRs are essentially multi-million dollar products that capture data, but what hospitals really need is decision support information that reduces the possibility of physician errors to improve patient safety, expert says.