Leadership Fundamentals for Digital Transformation
<p class="MsoNormal">Seldom in recent memory have healthcare organizations needed strong leadership to help chart a course through multiple challenging crises at once. With the pandemic continuing unabated, providers are facing a perfect storm of challenges – surging inpatient and outpatient demand, plummeting provider revenues, an uptick in ransomware and other cyberattacks, and new imperatives around telehealth and remote monitoring.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the same time, forward-looking hospitals and health systems are taking full advantage of new digital transformation opportunities available – technologies around virtual care, cloud platforms, artificial intelligence, connected health tools and more. This month, we’ll show how healthcare leaders are investing in this forward push, positioning themselves to capitalize on an array of innovations to enable a brighter future.</p>
As COVID-19 surges and supply lines become critical, health system leaders are working toward real-time visibility and predictive tools for inventory, pricing, lead times and demand trends.
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf and Executive Director of Clinical Research Anne Snowdon discuss what HIMSS and the SCAN Network are doing to help healthcare systems strengthen their supply chains.
At the American Medical Informatics Association virtual annual symposium this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci raised the possibility of registries to track which patients had received which vaccine doses.
Experts say that designing technology for everyone and creating customization features for smaller populations are key in making better solutions for seniors.
There's an art to balancing new innovation while maintaining a high level of existing service. It requires a solid foundation of core systems, adherence to quality controls and an excellent service support model.
The new initiative offers $100 million in network equipment and services for providers offering innovative telehealth and remote care services to low-income patients and veterans.
While "EHRs have known shortcomings," coordinated data initiatives and better interoperability can create a truly effective health IT infrastructure, say technology leaders from 15 academic medical centers.
The Boston health system’s Digital Innovation Hub has spearheaded a new way to get all staff to contribute ideas. Many of those ideas are already in play and proving successful.
The COVID-19 crisis has led to major leaps forward for telehealth, decision support and more, says Hal Wolf – but big work remains on interoperability, patient ID, social determinants and other building blocks of population health.
Penn Medicine Chief Information Officer Mike Restuccia says strong leadership is needed to capitalize on technology's potential – but people are the real enablers.
Hospital and health plan leaders also see revenue cycle management as an area of innovation that's stood out during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from KLAS and CCM.
Seamless workflow integration, better patient engagement, artificial intelligence utilization and "multidisciplinary group chat" – the sky's the limit when it comes to potential telemedicine innovations.
Christopher Lee and Babak Movassaghi said artificial intelligence and augmented reality will soon occupy much larger roles in the digital healthcare landscape.
From "outlawed" buzzwords to frustratingly defeatist attitudes, servers on the fritz to budgets in disarray, more than a dozen health IT pros tell us their least favorite turns of phrase.
In a conversation with George Halvorson, the CEO discusses interoperability, telehealth, rapid dissemination of new clinical insights and the ability to do installs and go-lives quicker and less expensively.
At the Cerner Health Conference, CEO Brent Shafer said COVID-19 has "inspired a burst of innovation," with hundreds of patents and faster progress for a wider array of technologies moving from concept to general availability.
Since launching the new systems, the health system has increased organic traffic to its website by nearly 30% and increased provider data accuracy by the same percentage.
A report from KLAS and CHIME finds that hospitals and health systems are still investing in population health management tools, but many are "becoming less optimistic" about the near-term prospects for value-based reimbursement.
In a HIMSS Learning Center presentation, Mayo CIO Cris Ross, Platform President Dr. John Halamka and other experts will show how the pandemic is accelerating the health system's infrastructure transformation.