Accountable Care

A new weekly series looks beyond the pandemic and explores strategies for driving lasting, IT-enabled operational and business improvements across healthcare.

The multi-stakeholder initiative will target healthcare access, affordability, quality and equity by engaging with health information exchanges and health improvement collaboratives.

A University Medical Center of El Paso executive previews his HIMSS21 session, focusing on using real-time analytics to reduce hospital readmissions.

At HIMSS21, the health system's chief innovation officer will discuss with a top consultant how its Digital Transformation Office provided centralized governance and smoothed the way for more effective enterprise-wide technology decisions.

"Even the perfect digital solution, based on all known facts today, may no longer optimally hit the mark once it’s been fully deployed in the future," says one expert, who will explain more at HIMSS21.

At HIMSS21, one health system offers perspective on managing volumes of confidential customer data while providing a better experience across phone, online and in-person contacts.

The company will collect a $1 million prize for its algorithms designed to predict unplanned hospitalizations and adverse events. Runner-up Geisinger will get $230,000.