HIMSS20 Digital Coverage

At HIMSS20 Digital, Eugene Kogan, Chief Technical Officer of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Analytics in St. Petersburg, Russia, talks hurtles and wins of moving towards continuous care.  

CMS will require hospitals to adopt the Hybrid Hospital-Wide 30-Day Readmission measure by 2023. Experts say you should start preparing now.

In addition to an expanded ED, the hospital knew it had to improve interstaff communications to bolster patient care.

Lyniate Chief Product and Strategy Officer Drew Ivan and Life Image CEO Matthew Michela discuss how technology issues for interoperability are more of a cultural than a deployment challenge.

A recent HIMSS Nordic Community webinar – moderated by Bogi Eliasen, HIMSS Future50 and director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies – addressed how Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway have enabled a sustainable human-centred health environment that influenced their crisis management during the pandemic.

Recent data breaches in digital health platforms have raised awareness for privacy protection and questions over who is responsible.

The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar hosted by HIMSS.

By creating a new physician support specialist position and giving providers the opportunity to be changemakers, the team at OrthoVirginia improved clinician experience.

With consumer-centric healthcare, patients have access to their cost and data and, in a post-COVID world, more virtual care.

By incorporating referrals into a physicians' EHR and creating a focused group of specialists, the shift to value is made that much easier.