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The technology holds great progress to get that needle in a haystack data and do something with it, even applying higher levels of cognition, says Tim O'Connell, cofounder and CEO of Emtelligent.
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Other innovations include virtual bedside nursing support, ambient AI for documentation and population health strategies, says Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director, health informatics at Trinity Health.
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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.
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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.
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Qualified health information networks allow providers to find all of the records in every location where a patient has been, across his or her lifetime, says Dr. John Blair, CEO, MedAllies, whose company was recently named a QHIN designee.
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Kathleen McGrow acts as the workflow bridge from bedside to information technology, says chief nursing information officer at Microsoft, who also co-chairs a HIMSS innovation nursing advisory group.
Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis International, is helping, in partnership with FundamentalVR, to train ophthalmic surgeons in low- to middle-income countries via a tool.
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Speedy health IT adoption means bridging the gap between education and practice to prepare the nursing workforce to provide care, says Olga Kagan, associate adjunct professor and consortial faculty at CUNY School of Professional Studies and HIMSS Changemaker award recipient.
Senator Klobuchar has introduced legislation prohibiting the use of pricing algorithm collusion through the use of nonpublic competitor data.