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A look inside some of the most ambitious initiatives happening at Healthcare IT News' 2016 Best Hospital IT Departments, which are cultivating a bold new era of care delivery by homing in on the patient experience.

Launching a patient portal is only step one, says HIMSS17 expert Jan Oldenburg. Empowering patients with the skills and technology to become partners in their own health takes much more than that. 

A new public-private partnership comprising more than 30 healthcare experts will advise the administration on ways technology can help improve healthcare quality across the Commonwealth and increase job growth.

As part of its Epic implementation, the health system will use Bernoulli’s HL7 interface and existing network infrastructure to connect medical devices and electronic health record systems.

The home health, palliative care, and hospice group is implementing Epic’s electronic health record to tie patient data together from disparate sources, officials said. 

People, products and pictures of last year’s event, from Sylvia Burwell’s opening keynote to the post-Super Bowl Peyton Manning shutting things down. And a whole lot of innovation on the show floor. 

The hospital worked with its technology vendors to drive better internal interoperability; it also was applauded for advance use of RFID for medication dispensing.

John Halamka, MD, served the Bush administration for four years and the Obama administration for six. Change in Washington happens incrementally, he says: There is always an evolution, not a revolution, regardless of speechmaking hyperbole.

Calling addiction the biggest U.S. health concern, Vivek Murthy, MD, says it should be seen as a chronic disease and treated as such.