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Chris Harle, a longtime clinical informatics leader who has worked as a biomedical researcher at Regenstrief and a health policy professor at Indiana University's school of public health, will helm the IT and data innovations at Regenstrief Data Services.

In discussing social determinants of health data utilization, Dr. Hilary Hatch, chief clinical officer at Phreesia, describes how analytics and patient engagement tools are streamlining workflows and helping providers respond to more patients in need.

This is part of an ongoing project to replace paper-based chemotherapy prescribing across South Australia.

New data elements related to social drivers of health, such as referrals to social services, improve standards-based information exchange with electronic health records, it says. 

Eric Liederman, chief executive officer of CyberSolutionsMD, says developing an "all of us approach" on what to do and how to do it can help even advanced organizations protect healthcare delivery when ransomware hits or affects a nearby hospital.

Jonathan Bauer, CIO at Atlantic General Hospital Health System, says when Change Healthcare was attacked and Atlantic couldn't bill for a month, it helped bring the need for a robust cybersecurity system front of mind to board members.

The intent of prior authorization - to make efficient use of health resources - has not worked, says Peter Ax of UpScriptHealth.

Also: SmarterDX launches tools to help hospitals overturn denials in minutes and recover lost revenue.

Previewed at the company's annual summit, the electronic health record, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, offers secure automation across clinical workflows, enabling faster insights at the point of care with streamlined documentation and more.

The strategy has had a big impact on patient access, bed capacity, and heart failure and all-cause readmissions – not to mention appreciation of patients and family thankful to receive care safely at home instead of having to be admitted to the hospital.