Business Intelligence

IDC Health Insights conducted a study to provide global healthcare executives with actionable insights and analysis for possible responses to future healthcare industry scenarios. These predictions for 2024’s healthcare industry landscape reflect the increasing drive to automate and deploy AI applications to reduce costs and improve patient care quality. The study also found a growing emphasis on sustainability and governance to help healthcare organizations build resilient infrastructure that can adapt to evolving challenges.

Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems, is among the top employers in the U.S., with more than 50,000 employees operating in 28 hospitals. To improve its recruitment process, Banner partnered with Mastek to build a Provider Pre-employment Made Easier (PPME) app, an online job board, a candidate portal and a stakeholder portal using the Salesforce platform.

Banner Health, one of the largest U.S. nonprofit healthcare systems, serves patients across six states. As part of its digital transformation process, Banner partnered with Mastek to modernize its IT infrastructure and develop a governance framework.

Learning from each other and the exchange of ideas happening in Rome during HIMSS24 Europe is "electrifying," says Hal Wolf, HIMSS president and CEO, who notes he is already looking forward to HIMSS25 in Paris.

Fink is an advisor and resource to the CVS Health Board of Directors and to senior management.

Diana van Stijn, cofounder and chief medical officer at Lapsi Health, says that, while clinicians are natural innovators, they should be taught the business side of healthcare in medical school so they can understand healthcare IT market needs.

Craig Kwiatkowski is taking the FAVES approach: fair, appropriate, valid, effective and safe. He says this also helps from an adoption perspective.  

The system provides the data insights that enable the organization to close underutilized clinics and redirect patients to others nearby. Additionally, the finance teams have whittled down rent reporting from two months to a week.

The hospital has recently achieved the maximum score of 400 for the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator.

Provider organizations first should do the basics, such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and conducting a security risk analysis, advises Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin.