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Patient access to medical records is law, and now apps give patients access to their own data in a way they’ve never had before, says patient advocate Dave deBronkart.  

The action of PBMs, combined with those of manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies created the opioid crisis, lawsuit says.

This real-world data from clinical-grade AI has helped to reduce medication safety events by 25%, says Dr. Colin Banas, CMO at DrFirst.  

AiGIA's platform helps individuals aggregate their data, which is crunched using AI and the information shared with stakeholders, says CEO Alex Diaconu.

AI and automation are being used wherever possible, say experts from Kaiser, CHS and King's Daughters Medical Center.

Hold training sessions such as "code dark," have redundant systems and practice, practice, practice, says Frank Forte, CEO of Anatomy IT.  

Athenahealth and Surescripts' integration of prescription benefits into provider workflows gives clinicians real-time benefits information, says Dr. Nele Jessel, athenahealth's CMO and Dr. Andrew Mellin, Surescripts' VP and CMIO.  

Health IT falls short in not building solutions that are consumer oriented and make it easy for patients to engage, says Will Cantrell, InteliChart's director of product solutions.  

Ransomware attacks have dominated, accounting for over 70% of healthcare cyberattacks in the past two years.

Children's Nebraska tackled capacity roadblocks, resulting in a 12% increase in patient volume and other revenue benefits, says Mindy Bosanek, director of Surgical Services and Cynthia Harms, Surgical Services OR business manager for Children's Nebraska.