Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Dr. Robert Lackey, chief medical information officer at WellSpan Health, talks about how his organization prioritized patient safety during recent mergers.

VA program executive director Dr. Terry Adirim; Bill Tinston, director of FEHRM; and Holly Joers, DOD program executive officer, talk about federal health IT evolution due to the pandemic and the EHR modernization initiative.

Despite significant investment and well over a decade of different transformation plans and initiatives, there’s still much to do before we can say the health and care system has truly gone through a digital revolution.

This week's top stories include HHS' Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center cautioning about potential cybersecurity risks of EHRs, and, in a show of bipartisan support, more than 60 U.S. Senators ask the CMS to keep MA rates stable.  

Dr. Maulik Purohit, clinical innovation lead for transformation at University Hospitals, discusses tech strategies, patient communication and the challenges of clinical genetics and population health genomics.

Gregg Church, president of 4medica, discusses the dangers of duplicate patient records and how AI can assist providers in maintaining clean data.

This week's top stories include a study that finds Black, Hispanic, Asian American and other minority groups enrolled in Medicaid experience worse care than their white counterparts, and Epic's sneak peek at what it plans to showcase at HIMSS22.

This week's top stories include the GAO saying data issues occurred partly because the VA did not establish performance measures and goals for migrated data quality, and AliveCor's KardiaMobile Card that is able to take a single-lead ECG in 30 seconds.

As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

Areas of opportunity include data analytics for research, enhancing EHR capabilities and using AI algorithms to support patient care and operational efficiency, says Mike Restuccia.