Decision Support

At HIMSS23, Evelyn Gallego, CEO and founder of EMI Advisors, will highlight with fellow panelists the opportunity to develop a standardized data exchange to improve maternal care coordination and planning.

The company says the new HIPAA-compliant integration can reduce specialist visits, improve patient access and minimize administrative overhead with customizable algorithms that route patient referrals.

In a preview of his HIMSS23 session, Christopher Girardo, fellow, clinical informatics/PRN staff, pathology, at LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner Health, dives into health IT's role in fighting sepsis.

The modules are expected to provide greater efficiency by improving bed management and reducing data duplication.

dbMotion is already live in southwestern Sydney in New South Wales.

Key information in clinical decision-making tools needs to be rapidly scanned to be useful at the point of care.

Amazon Web Services says the 23 startups selected for the new AWS Healthcare Accelerator are developing cloud-based solutions to help address the global healthcare worker shortage.

Expanding access to cardiac rehab via virtual models is critical for addressing the heart disease crisis in the U.S., says the vice president of the Heart & Vascular Institute at Geisinger.

Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System, discuss how algorithms produce individual workload acuity scores using patient chart information in their HIMSS23 presentation preview.

Identifying clinical workflow flaws and creating a strategy for improvements, implementing decision support software to reduce call center pressures and using AI-powered teletriage all are key, says one expert.