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Over the course of year, the health system has cut hospital length of stay and saved $62 million with help from the company's remote care platform.

The Netherlands-based company’s newest offering contains two interactive tools for physicians, to better match symptoms and health history along with lab test results.

Forrest Carr, director of business innovation and digital experience for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, defines digital convergence and discusses how it differs from digital transformation as the new enterprise imperative, what that looks like for healthcare, what strategies can address challenges of convergence, and how to innovate toward desired outcomes.

The company plans to broaden its knowledge of traditional Eastern healing techniques, creating a taxonomy for its Embase biomedical literature database. 

Nancy Green, global practice lead for healthcare and life sciences at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, discusses how widening your view on patient experience will require new models and new thinking. She highlights the evolving focus on customer experience in healthcare, the role that voice-of-the-customer feedback plays in CX design and why integrating best practices for CX has less to do with the right technology than it does with the right organizational culture.

William Kloes, president of commercial health at Leidos, believes that deeply integrated IT systems can deliver the data and analytics needed to prosper in the new world of value-based care.

At HIMSS18, longtime health informaticist Blackford Middleton will show how CDS can be deployed online and via SMART on FHIR apps and shared across EHRs nationwide.

To help fight sticker shock, the e-prescribing vendor is enabling doctors and patients to work together to find the best, most affordable covered medication – before the patient leaves the office.

A physician working on a major Kaiser Permanente clinical decision support implementation shares lessons learned.

The informatics group says that with big innovation on the horizon it still sees ongoing confusion among developers and clinicians over which CDS and PDS software is considered a "device" and which isn't.