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Advocate Health Care informaticist says there are both challenges and opportunities for as technology becomes more widely used in clinical settings.

Training programs for cultivating leaders often focus too much on skills and not enough on process, says Bryan Bennett, executive director of the Healthcare Center for Excellence.

As artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning systems become better than humans at medicine and cost less, it might even become unethical not to replace people.

The health system drastically reduced documentation time and number of clicks within its Cerner EHR after a three-year optimization project.  

The tools analyze relevant patient notes using deep learning and natural language processing technologies.

HIMSS is recognizing Mercy for its EHR optimization, process improvement efforts, use of evidence-based protocols and analytics gains – all of which have helped the health system improve care quality and patient outcomes, lower costs and increased reimbursements.