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Last year, the organizations embarked on a decade-long partnership to advance the health system's AI and ML innovations. Then the novel coronavirus began to spread.

Healthcare IT News sits down with US-based Rebecca Love – a nurse, entrepreneur, inventor, author, TedX speaker and the first nurse featured on Ted.com – ahead of her keynote session during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event that is due to kick off on 7 September.

The recent series of events of Black Lives Matter have revealed the vast disparities that impact UK BAME workers within the health tech industry, and so actions are being taken to combat these inequalities.

Medicomp Systems Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jay Anders discusses the causes and some cures for physicians overwhelmed by electronic health record systems.

Velissaris said investing in women and people of color helps bring new ideas to the table.  

The system had already been using Synchronous Health's services to address burnout and trauma among its caregivers.

Healthcare IT News spoke to nursing and informatics experts to find out how exactly nurses and midwives have led the digital transition.  

At launch, the syllabus will focus on nursing education content centered on geriatric management around daily care, preventive care, mental health issues and neurological diseases.

The initiative will use a mental health monitoring tool,= developed by Johns Hopkins tech startup Rose to track stress levels among staff and identify triggers.

Marc Probst, longtime CIO at Intermountain Healthcare and new CIO at ELLKAY, discusses interoperability, telehealth, digital transformation and the cost challenges facing healthcare now – as well as the IT innovation he sees emerging from the COVID-19 crisis.