Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The healthcare marketplace says its new Integration Partner Program for EHRs and PM vendors is focused on helping all healthcare specialties grow.

By adding the content-as-a-service platform and other evidence-based patient education tools to its Ignite portfolio, WebMD will support 650+ healthcare organizations – including more than 50% of U.S. hospitals and several major payers, the company said.

Also, robotic technology underpins Apollo Proton Cancer Centre's newest rectal cancer centre.

Yusuf Tamer, principal data and applied scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, offers a sneak preview of his HIMSS24 session, which offers a detailed look at one of artificial intelligence's most promising use cases.

Digital transformation in healthcare requires more than the latest medical technology; to mitigate risks — and reduce clinical burnout — hospitals also need connectivity and interoperability.

Dr. Melek Somai discusses the most promising use cases for artificial intelligence, and describes how his health system has made it an "integral component" of its information ecosystem.

2017 saw Houston Methodist Coordinated Care Medicare Accountable Care Organization in the 40th percentile in some of the CMS ACO quality metrics. Today it's in the 90th. Physicians also have received CMS shared savings based on their quality percentile performance.

The EHR vendor says it's been rapidly integrating artificial intelligence across all its offerings over the past year to automate healthcare workflows and hone in on better provider and patient experiences.

While 93% of physicians said that they feel burned out in athenahealth’s third Physician Sentiment Survey, conducted by the Harris Poll, 83% said that AI had the potential to reduce administrative burdens.

The phased go-lives are expected to begin late this year.