HIMSS23

In his 50 years of attending HIMSS events, Dan Soule, VP of technology operations at Health Catalyst, has seen an evolution in the EHR, clinical advances, AI innovation and attention to health equity.

Clinical documentation improvement, or CDI, eases burden for fewer clicks, greater efficiencies, more time with patients at bedside and family at home, says Tami McMasters Gomez, director of Coding and Clinical Documentation Integrity Services at UC Davis Medical Center.  

When providers have conversations with patients and switch to lower-cost drugs, individuals are saving an average of $61 on prescriptions, says Dr. Andrew Mellin, CMIO at Surescripts.  

Telehealth providers have until August 12 to come into OCR compliance, with the end of PHE provisions, says HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Melanie Rainer.  

The new headquarters aligns the communities in Europe and AsiaPac to chapters in North America and India, Wolf says.  

AI built into the EHR can be used for clinical decision support to give a better understanding to patient treatment, says R. Ryan Sadeghian, CMIO of Hunterdon Healthcare System.

The health system has partnered to predict hospital load and then match it with the clinical team, says Dr. John Doulis, VP of data services and innovation at HCA Healthcare.  

Kyruus has focused on data management, says Chief Revenue Officer Brandon Spring, and Intermountain is creating a unified patient experience across hospitals, says Mona Baset, VP of digital services for Intermountain Health.  

Azalea's API Marketplace is a plug and play FHIR framework that can be scaled for smaller organizations, says Nathan Shepard, the company's VP of product.  

VC partnerships with cutting-edge startups can onboard health system technology to fill gaps in a cost-efficient way, say Michael Hasselberg, the University of Rochester's chief digital health officer, and Dr. Justin Norden, a partner at GSR Ventures.