Strategic Planning

Making patients aware of medications that are potentially dangerous is important, but alert fatigue poses a threat to physician wellness and burnout, says First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz.

Where possible, Cedars-Sinai likes to look for solutions within existing platforms, such as using Epic's In-basket message-response technology, which queues up a draft to edit and send, says CIO Craig Kwiatkowski.

Christopher Kunney won a 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award as advocacy chair for the HIMSS Georgia chapter and much more, including being involved in the HIMSS Health Equity Policy Task Force, the YMCA and Carry Meds that supplies drugs and supplies to West Africa.  

Upon closing, the integrated system will operate 30 hospitals and more than 700 sites of care.

Remote monitoring, data capture and delivery of care services inside the home allows for site-agnostic care, says Dr. Maulik Majmudar, chief medical officer at Biofourmis.  

CVS has fared better because of its ability to scale and coordinate its other business model resources, Aetna and Signify, analyst says.

The frameworks came out about the same time HIMSS released its annual healthcare cybersecurity survey, which this year shows how healthcare organizations are using AI, says Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at HIMSS.  

The hospital will include surgical services, a 30-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit and a full complement of imaging services.

Phishing, compromised accounts through remote access and unpatched vulnerabilities are common attack vectors, says Carolyn Metnick, partner at Sheppard Mullin who is a member of their Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity teams.

"Steward's goal is that zero hospitals are closed as part of this process," according to court hearing documents.