Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

While legislators offer proposals to recalibrate the development and rein in the deployment and oversight of the VA's Oracle Cerner electronic health records, other leaders want to scrap the system altogether.

The Indiana health system has achieved massive success with its patient engagement and telemedicine initiatives, its SVP of digital health explains.

Northern California health system wanted a solid foundation before digital transformation.

The FHIR-enabled platform supports provider tools that integrate algorithms and machine learning to improve patient diagnoses.

By leveraging ML and artificial intelligence services, 3M will expedite, refine and scale the delivery of its real-time speech recognition platform, the company says.

The Defense Health Agency is launching a data-centric path to making military medicine "more precise, personal, predictive, preventive and participatory," said its new director, Army Lieutenant General Dr. Telita Crosland, at HIMS23.

Epic and eClinicalWorks show off soon-to-rollout GPT3 integrations with Microsoft Azure's OpenAI Service, while Salesforce explains how healthcare customers can use Einstein GPT in CRM.

Provider organizations should consider alternatives to alleviate clinician burnout and deliver stronger ROI, contends Holly Urban of CliniComp.

Integrating the cloud-based models into daily workflows will "increase productivity for many of our providers," says one CIO, "allowing them to focus on the clinical duties that truly require their attention."

"This is not your father’s Meditech," quips Michelle O'Connor, Meditech's president and CEO, who discusses the vendor's new innovations at the conference this week.