Bill Siwicki

Two investment bankers discuss the players in the telehealth sector, the main financial backers, the dynamics between venture capital and private equity, and more.

A provider's digital transformation expert and consultant shows how regular care paradigms will continue to erode, the big four retail healthcare players will begin to execute their plans, and the fax machine will at long last (gulp) die.

William Lewkowski, vice president of HCTec, a healthcare consulting firm, discusses a distributed landscape for healthcare and health IT and new technologies leaders at provider organizations must consider.

One industry observer notes the massive digital transformation in how care is accessed and the historic increases in cyberattacks have been pushing more provider organizations to expect much more from their IT vendors.

EHR optimization, limited application of artificial intelligence, and working with machine learning and natural language processing where proven are some of the areas for which these experts say CIOs and other leaders must be prepared.

Now that telemedicine is mainstream, artificial intelligence is helping healthcare providers with imperatives such as patient triage. Early results are promising.

Compudopt enables millions of households to participate in telemedicine – and its community portal offers free tech support, resources and low-cost services for food, housing and more.

Operational staff are focused on improving efficiency and reducing delays, while clinical teams are looking at quality improvement projects. A thriving research community, meanwhile, is digging deep into data for many different use cases.

A healthcare consultant discusses how automation is enabling more tailored engagement that can help patients better adhere to their care plans and deliver a more personalized care experience in general.

The FQHC has seen significant improvements in blood pressure and A1c numbers across the patient population enrolled in its remote patient monitoring program.