Operations

In a preview of their HIMSS23 discussion of a coalition aimed at curing healthcare disparities in the city, Russ Hinz of Advocate Health, Stephanie Chia of University of Chicago Medicine and Susan Tolin from Chartis talk about their experiences and the results.

Joe Drygas, VP of healthcare for AT&T Business, and Randy Bush, principal at Deloitte Consulting, will join HIMSS23 to talk about advanced connectivity and healthcare.

Value-based payment models by CMS have not yet resulted in significant savings to payers, providers or patients, says Health Affairs study.

Scripps Health's Tracy Chu previews her HIMSS23 presentation, "Automation Improves Digital Education App Performance," about ways automation has helped patients and clinician workflows.

The report also highlights the substantial gender pay gap among physicians, with men earning nearly $110,000 more than women.

Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System, preview their talk at HIMSS23 explaining how algorithms can use patient data to distribute the nursing workload.  

When data exchange is treated as a strategic initiative it gets better results than doing the compliance minimum, says Drew Ivan of Lyniate.

The survey showed that administrators often guess wrong about physicians' reasons for calling it quits.

Certified IDR entities have now resumed processing all payment determinations.

Factors such as opportunity, competition and the overall medical environment can result in different working conditions.