Bill Siwicki

The message of the 60 exhibitors and 12 sessions: That health information technology is not just for providers or payers but now directly impacts the individual patient.

The provider organization has been working with a health IT and services vendor with a two-solution strategy that is enabling the organization’s transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value.

Its homegrown Canopy system is an example of the type of platform that value-based models of the future will need to deliver evidence-based care in a complex care ecosystem.

Here’s a look at what experts are saying hospital business decision makers should be doing today to prepare for the future.

NewYork-Presbyterian, UPMC and Thibodaux executives discuss the advantages and imperatives of creating wide-ranging telehealth programs.

For threats ranging from data leakage to ransomware to credential-stealing malware, healthcare executives must develop strategies for before, during and after attacks.

The health IT vendor is also concentrating on AI and FHIR heading into HIMSS19. 

Health systems must manage technical resources at the speed of healthcare, not the speed of technology, to pave the way to strategic digital health.

The benefits are well known yet some IT leaders still have a hard time convincing CEOs, CFOs and COOs to fund cloud projects. Here’s expert advice on breaking it down in a way they can understand.

Google Cloud identifies these as two important healthcare trends going into HIMSS19.