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Robert Wood Johnson and NYU Langone tweaked processes to use social determinants, proactive screening and remote patient monitoring to reach goals.

Open source? Proprietary? Both? Readers reveal which innovation tactics they take.

With more people living with chronic conditions, and recent acquisitions by Amazon and CVS, consumerism is reshaping the traditional healthcare system.

Whether developing new digital tools, making strategic investments or partnering with tech startups, hospitals have plenty of ways to innovate.

This case study looks at the electronic prescription support technology now guiding roughly 80 percent of the health system's prescription decisions.

This case study examines how patients are spending 273 percent more time booking appointments on the UAB Medicine website, a big win for the goal of boosting patient access.

The key performance indicators, measurable processes, implementation data and demonstrable value are what makes an effective innovation dashboard.

All great companies started as a single idea.  A fleeting burst of electricity, a synapse firing, a chemical reaction.  Then those ideas, like cells in a body, begin to divide and reproduce.  Like cells, they find intention and purpose in a mission, organs developing in a growing embryo.  Once born into the marketplace, those companies’ ideas, like children, gain agency, meet the world and adapt as experience matures insights.  

HIMSS on Friday issued a call to the healthcare industry to take action in battling the ongoing opioid crisis in America by using health information and technology.

Post-surgical readmissions were halved at the health system, HIMSS says, driven by EHR optimization and decision support tools – it's also helped combat potential opioid dependency.