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For starters, focus on outcomes and simplify processes where you can, health IT leaders say.

The Texas provider said it aims to improve patient and clinician experience with the new platform.

The Choice Program was designed to shorten wait times and ease travel burdens for veterans. But Congress failed to pass the reform package last month.

Federal officials said that USCG’s requirements are almost 100 percent the same as the Defense Department and, unlike Veterans Affairs, the agencies can both rollout the electronic health record under a single contract.

The lab testing process can now be managed within the virtual care app, with help from Change's Intelligent Healthcare Network.

St. Charles has been preparing to go-live with Epic for two years and has spent that time getting staff on board and ready to launch.

The emergency department EHR enables caregivers to document with much greater speed, which helped knock down the door-to-doc wait time from 67 minutes to less than 30.

A major overhaul of the company's structure, with new standalone micro-services leading to more products than are currently available, just might result in "marvelous change," he says.

CIOs are acutely aware of the security complications medical devices and telehealth bring.

Healthcare leaders Robert Wachter, David Bates, Leah Binder and Tejal Gandhi take the pulse of how far patient safety has come in recent decades – and point toward the work that lies ahead.