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Dr. Lara Jehi, chief research information officer, and Craig Martin, IT product director for population health, at the Cleveland Clinic discuss using the patient portal to communicate about research opportunities.

Decentralisation lies at the core of healthcare transformation, shifting focus to a more distributed model that brings care closer to patients. Regional diagnostic networks support this evolution by removing silos and enabling boundary-less collaboration.

The guide's accessible cybersecurity information benefits all levels of organizations and helps improve business continuity planning and mitigating impacts, says Gerry Blass, CEO of ComplyAssistant and Frank Sinatra, CISO at Newark's University Hospital.

Also, MedSync launches a new video sharing feature.

Digital tools are improving the clinician experience in Seoul, say Dr. Wonchul Cha, CMIO and director of the Digital Innovation Center at Samsung Medical Center, and Dr. Meong Hi Son, vice director of its Digital Transformation Center.

Combined practice management tools have also helped the applied behavioral analysis clinic, which serves a healthcare desert, increase client progress and enhance staff efficiency.

Discussing takeaways from the recent HIMSS23 Nursing Informatics Forum, Tony Black, director of federal healthcare for Kyndryl, talks about the demands nurses face and how technology can improve the way they deliver care.

There are ways technology can help ease clinician burden. Kathleen McGrow, chief nursing information officer at Microsoft and a 2023 HIMSS Changemaker Award recipient, explains how.

Health tech incubator MATTER embeds health equity into its initiatives and encourages its partner companies to do the same, says Olyvia Phillips, its manager of equity initiatives.

Standardizing information capture, including a universal patient identification, can enhance data quality while eliminating the 20% record duplication rate facing healthcare organizations, says Gregg Church, president of 4medica.