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The system moved away from a hybrid approach including paper and electronic barcode scanning and sees it as a boon to patient safety. 

The outgoing national coordinator discusses interoperability, the promise of innovation and how he used a Palm Pilot to be a better clinician at the point of care. 

The outgoing department head touts big advancements in access to care, quality improvements and cost efficiencies - thanks in large part to health IT and data-driven innovation. But she points to much work still to be done in the years ahead.

The virtual care management tool is now available as part of athena's More Disruption Please program.

The health system said IG enables providers to deliver better care and improve patient engagement while also controlling costs and claims denials. 

The firm also found that tech illiteracy is the next roadblock to achieving population health success.

As the conference does every year, HIMSS17 will bring a strong education focus on electronic health records trends, best practices and news. 

Eric Topol and Kathryn Haun make the case for keeping medical data in personal clouds or digital wallets, empowering patients and removing centralized targets for cybercrooks, in a New York Times op-ed piece.

Cybersecurity, analytics and population health have the attention and dollars of healthcare organizations, which also are beginning to invest in prescriptive analytics and artificial intelligence, a new Healthcare IT News survey finds.

Here are some of the most popular stories of the past year – and a few that were emblematic of the momentous trends that shaped healthcare information technology in 2016.