Strategic Planning
Optum Health has been hit by an elevated medical cost trend and will be “refocused” on its original mission.
Informatics and health IT are not synonymous but inextricably linked, says longtime informaticist Dr. Jonathan M. Sternlieb, who has been a clinician for 35 years.
Rochester Regional Health recently completed a pilot of an ambient digital scribe with 300 providers that will be implemented in the health system, says Dr. Everett Weiss, medical director for health informatics.
The AI platform goes through unstructured medical records to surface eligible trials, allowing clinical research teams to move faster.
It's becoming more critical for health systems to tie together analytics and artificial intelligence, says Karthik Raja, chief analytics and AI officer at Ascension.
Revenues have also increased 12.4% over that time, hitting $50.7 billion in the quarter.
Smaller scale workflows and ambient technologies are big everyday wins and the next move is toward clinical summarization, says Rachini Moosavi, chief analytics officer for UNC Health.
CVS also acquires the prescription files of 626 former Rite Aid and Bartell Drugs pharmacies in 15 states.
Resist the urge to think the EHR is good enough because there's always more value in the investment, says Dr. Michael Zaroukian, Epic Emeritus CMIO and a past chair of the HIMSS board of directors.
The integration of One Medical to technology-driven pharmacy fulfillment strategically bypasses high overhead such as staffing.