Business Intelligence

The goal is to move digital therapeutics forward by ensuring validation and accreditation in healthcare, say Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust, and Andy Molnar, CEO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance.  

John P. Donohue, vice president of IS entity services, discusses creating opportunities for standardization across a complex health system, strategizing prioritization of initiatives across the health system, and much more.

As payers and providers collaborate on value-based reimbursement, they'll optimize care pathways through effective contract modeling, measuring performance and addressing friction, say David Wolf, MedeAnalytics AVP, and Lynn Carroll, HSBlox COO.  

IDC Health Insights conducted a study to provide global healthcare executives with actionable insights and analysis for possible responses to future healthcare industry scenarios. These predictions for 2024’s healthcare industry landscape reflect the increasing drive to automate and deploy AI applications to reduce costs and improve patient care quality. The study also found a growing emphasis on sustainability and governance to help healthcare organizations build resilient infrastructure that can adapt to evolving challenges.

Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems, is among the top employers in the U.S., with more than 50,000 employees operating in 28 hospitals. To improve its recruitment process, Banner partnered with Mastek to build a Provider Pre-employment Made Easier (PPME) app, an online job board, a candidate portal and a stakeholder portal using the Salesforce platform.

Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems, serves patients across six states. As part of its digital transformation process, Banner partnered with Mastek to modernize its IT infrastructure and develop a governance framework.

Learning from each other and the exchange of ideas happening in Rome during HIMSS24 Europe is "electrifying," says Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, who notes he is already looking forward to HIMSS25 in Paris.

Diana van Stijn, cofounder and chief medical officer at Lapsi Health, says that, while clinicians are natural innovators, they should be taught the business side of healthcare in medical school so they can understand healthcare IT market needs.

Craig Kwiatkowski is taking the FAVES approach: fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe. He says this also helps from an adoption perspective.