Tom Sullivan

From chatbots mining social media to wearables and trendy tools, Healthcare IT News' Best Hospital IT Department winners discuss the top tech poised to have a critical impact on their organizations' future.

Survey responses range from massive disruption to more competitive markets. Hospital leaders are hoping that prices go down but alternative payment models MACRA, MIPS and the Medicare Shared Savings Program remain. 

Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance surveyed readers and found many are anxiously expecting short-term chaos, skyrocketing costs, increased fraud and uninsured people dying after president-elect Donald Trump moves into the White House.  

The president-elect made bold campaign promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But even with a Republican-led House and Senate, how quickly can he make that happen?

A startling number of respondents to a new poll support the idea of the government providing an insurance option to compete with commercial plans, though researchers said those people might be swayed. 

Developing apps that allow patients more control over their healthcare is a start; next are apps that capture wearable data inside the health system.

A family-centered culture at the Tennessee system led to development of a life-saving alert system based on Apple and Cerner tools.

Health orgs trekking deeper into analytics should expect a new information wave, understand that crowdsourcing can pay off, know machine learning is real right now, buckle down on governance. And don’t hold out for perfection. 

They’re not just TV stars. Robert Herjavec is a renowned security expert and Kevin O’Leary an innovation specialist with experience in healthcare dating back decades. 

Yet the industry has more potential for care improvement and ROI than others that have already adopted the technologies.