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Salesforce on Monday unveiled new functionality within its Health Cloud to address caps in care and help clinicians assess patients. Health Cloud Care Gaps help hospitals monitor gaps in a patient’s care and communicate with patients outside the hospital setting via technologies including telehealth, said Joshua Newman, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Salesforce. Closing gaps in care can improve health and clinical outcomes. “As long as care gaps are managed in systems that don’t let users reach out to people, there’s going to be a major chasm,” Newman said. “Having it in a single system means the gaps can be filled.” Clinicians can use the new Health Cloud Assessments features to conduct a daily survey with patients to gauge, say, their level of pain or range of motion after a joint replacement surgery, for example. The assessments can also include lifestyle, emotional response, health risks, patient activation, and other considerations. “Our analytics are connected to all of this,. The assessment, clinical data can be drilled into to find patients that might need an intervention or a phone call, a follow-up,” Newman said. “With the combination of analytics, assessments and care plans were getting to a closed-loop system. Salesforce is in Booth 7815. .jumbotron{ background-image: url("http://www.himss.org/sites/himssorg/files/u351641/HIMSS-sign5-jumbotron.jpg"); background-size: cover; color: white; } .jumbotron h2{ color: white; } Full HIMSS18 Coverage An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS18 global conference in Las Vegas. Twitter: SullyHIT Email the writer: tom.sullivan@himssmedia.com

There are 300-plus education sessions and 1,300-plus vendors sharing their new technology so there are a lot of industry news to take in at the annual event.

HP has lifted the curtain on a spate of new healthcare devices, each specifically designed to address the next generation of patient care, The new portfolio was revealed at the HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas on Monday. The new slate of products is designed to address healthcare provider needs such as enhanced patient safety, smarter workflows, temedicine and data security. The new devices include the HP EliteBook 840 G5 Healthcare Edition notebook, the HP EliteOne 800 G4 23.8 Healthcare Edition All-in-One (AiO), and the HP Healthcare Edition HC270cr Clinical Review Display. Dubbed the HP Healthcare Edition, the portfolio offers solutions “that are safer, smarter and more secure for healthcare,” HP’s Senior Director of Worldwide Healthcare Reid Oakes said in a statement. He said the offerings “help providers protect patients and their data, streamline workflows, and facilitate collaboration across the care continuum to deliver effective patient-centered care.” Safety, efficiency and security are among the challenges facing the healthcare industry these days. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are about 1.7 million healthcare-associated infections, or HAIs, in U.S. hospitals each year. That, according to HP, illustrates the need for devices designed for repeated and thorough sanitization. And there’s is a need to streamline clinical workflows and boost productivity to improve the care delivery experience. On average, clinicians log into workstations and applications 70 times a day, according to research from Imprivata, impacting the amount of time spent engaging with patients. Plus, modern security threats are complex, and requiring comprehensive defense strategies. Data from the Ponemon Institute shows that, in 2016, more than 16 million healthcare records were exposed or stolen, with the average cost of data breach per lost or stolen record estimated to be $355 in the U.S. To that end, HP’s new portfolio includes The HP EliteBook 840 G5 Healthcare Edition Notebook, which utilizes HP Easy Clean software to facilitate cleaning with germicidal wipes while the device is still on. It’s the world's first ultra-slim notebook for healthcare to integrate RFID and biometrics for single sign-on authentication, according to an HP internal analysis, and features HP Sure View G4 to deter visual hacking. It’s also optimized for an intuitive collaboration experience: HP Audio Boost, HP Noise Cancellation, and IR/RGB camera for optimized audio and video calls. It’s expected to be available in May. The HP EliteOne 800 G4 23.8 Healthcare Edition AiO, meanwhile, is an AiO for healthcare with integrated dual-band RFID and biometrics for single sign-on authentication. It features HP Manageability Integration Kit (MIK) and can collaborate with HP Audio Boost, HP Noise Cancellation to suppress background distractions from noisy environments, and dual-facing pop-camera simplifying patient registration and badging, while offering an enhanced privacy option when the camera’s not in use. It’s expected in June. And then there’s the HP Healthcare Edition HC270cr Clinical Review Display, which HP said is the world’s first clinical review display to integrate an RFID reader that supports single-sign-on authentication. This 27-inch diagonal, 3.7-megapixel clinical review display is DICOM Part 14-compliant with luminance uniformity, automatic backlight monitoring, auto image rotation, and supports user calibration for image viewing. It is the world’s first clinical review display with USB-C that supplies up to 65w power delivery for connected devices, according to HP. It’s also expected in June. HP is in Booth 2837. .jumbotron{ background-image: url("http://www.himss.org/sites/himssorg/files/u351641/HIMSS-sign5-jumbotron.jpg"); background-size: cover; color: white; } .jumbotron h2{ color: white; } HIMSS18 Preview An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS18 global conference in Las Vegas. Twitter: @JELagasse Email the writer: jeff.lagasse@himssmedia.com

Building on the success of its EMR Adoption Model, otherwise known as EMRAM, HIMSS Analytics is introducing new models for infrastructure and supply chain and expanding its Digital Imaging Adoption Model. Much like EMRAM was a guidepost hospitals use when gearing up for an EHR go-live, the new models are designed to help users understand how to optimize infrastructure, supply chain and enterprise imaging. “Early infrastructure models were built around EHRs and on-site data centers but as cloud, telehealth and personalized medicine continue advancing, the infrastructure demands on a hospital have changed,” said Blain Newton, Executive Vice President of HIMSS Analytics. “Being able to understand how to adapt to that from disparate locations and access patient generated data is a very different game than when all you had to do was setup a server farm.” To that end, HIMSS Analytics built the Infrastructure Maturity Model, INFRAM, in collaboration with Cisco. Likewise, HIMSS Analytics partnered with Scan Health to create the H-SIMM. “When you think of supply chain, the real value is integration with clinical systems to reduce variability and cost of care,” Newton said. “If you have that integration, hospitals can achieve all kinds of financial benefits immediately from reducing waste and variability and the long-term play is very significant impact on clinical effectiveness.” Whereas INFRAM and H-SIMM are new models, HIMSS Analytics is working to bring its Digital Imaging Adoption Model (DIAM) to the United States and expand it to include Enterprise Imaging. “With the advancement of imaging technology and infrastructure to support large-scale data storage and transport, and AI to automate interpretation of images, we’re seeing an explosion in this space,” Newton said. Right now, leading systems such as the Mayo Clinic are leveraging heavy AI-enabled image reading and analysis but the question has become whether or not rural facilities can use technology, infrastructure and access to information in similar ways. “You have to be setup from a technology and workflow perspective,” Newton said. The new maturity models will be available in the summer of 2018. HIMSS Analytics is in Booth 1338. .jumbotron{ background-image: url("http://www.himss.org/sites/himssorg/files/u351641/HIMSS-sign5-jumbotron.jpg"); background-size: cover; color: white; } .jumbotron h2{ color: white; } HIMSS18 Preview An inside look at the innovation, education, technology, networking and key events at the HIMSS18 global conference in Las Vegas.

A new HIMSS exhibit area will bring together over 100 companies that are ready to disrupt healthcare.

The acquisition will enable HIMSS to offer hospitals guidance about bringing innovation into their systems and learning how to invest in and work with startups.

5G is expected to become mainstream in 2020 and it is designed to support ultra-reliable, low-latency and massive data communications.

All its properties will be in one place at Booth 6243, which will feature innovations powered by a diverse array of acquisitions in recent years.

The revenue cycle management firm buys Informatics Corporation of America (CareAlign) for an undisclosed sum, eyeing improved service for clients managing MACRA and more.

Its new risk score harnesses clinically-validated information from non-clinical settings, enabling health systems to better manage their 30-day readmission risks.