HIMSS23

Virtual reality device data has the ability to bridge gaps in the EHR, says Gita Barry, president of immersive healthcare at Penumbra.  

Virtualists can handle the three Rs that take up 50% of a physician’s time: routine, repeatable and rules-based care, says Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare.

A new hospital benchmarking study sheds light on how prepared hospitals are to combat cybersecurity attacks and highlights potential areas of focus, says Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet.  

CIOs employ AI and HIPAA and other best practices to vet third-party risk, says Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health.

Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics for the Permanente Medical Group, describes how the shared security governance within the Kaiser Permanente organization helps strengthen its cybersecurity posture.

Lisa Stephenson, chair of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee and CNIO at Houston Methodist, says nurses need to move beyond culling data from the EHR to a bigger picture that includes interoperability and health equity.  

Artificial intelligence software is able to extract valuable information from medical records, says Dr. Tim O'Connell, CEO and founder of Emtelligent.  

DrFirst's AI-driven medication algorithm can read the intent of the prescription renewal request, says CMO Dr. Colin Banas.  

Epic MyChart is used to communicate with patients about clinical research, says Cleveland Clinic's chief research information officer Dr. Lara Jehi, and IT product director for population health Craig Martin.

The current manual process could be made easier by mining data in the EHR for specific research, says Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.