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John Halamka, MD, recently started a process that some may consider regressive. He began deleting his social media accounts to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in his life.

Penn Medicine chief information officer Mike Restuccia highlights the trends and tools improving care delivery and celebrates health IT professionals for facilitating their use to engage patients. 

In the next few weeks, she will try to share  as much knowledge and insight as she can.

Achieving interoperability across boundaries and connecting providers for collaboration is a long process. Here are a few examples of customers where our interoperability technology is improving care and outcomes.

"As I've said many times, one of the great challenges we have is that the 2015 Edition final rule has an enormous scope extending beyond meaningful use with the notion that it can be coupled to every government healthcare IT program," writes John Halamka, MD.  

The findings of the HIMSS Longitudinal Gender Compensation Assessment report take direct aim at the claim that, in health IT, "You've come a long way.

"You want the strongest, happiest, smartest people in your corner," according to Dana Alexander, former board chair, HIMSS North America.

I was fortunate to work with an excellent executive coach several years ago.

Penn Medicine associate CIO John Donohue shares insights and obstacles from the academic medical centers work on telehealth thus far. 

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