Bill Siwicki

In a HIMSS21 educational session, the rural health system's virtual health coordinator will walk attendees through how the program works, the technologies used and the successes achieved.

The system for communicating COVID-19 status also saved Nova Scotia Health's public health team more than 10,000 hours of phone time over the past year.

"These modules expose patterns in population health data, allowing us to create programs and mechanisms to better understand disease and treatment trends," said the founder of MMR Healthcare.

An expert discusses use cases for this emerging approach, and describes how it's poised to enable big advances in decision support, diagnosis, surgery and more.

At Gerald Champion RMC, the telemedicine technology is integrated with the EHR. It has proven easy to use for patients, even seniors and technophobes.

Further, the health system achieved lowered readmissions, and patients who received post-discharge outreach were 32% less likely to be readmitted following their initial hospitalization or ER discharge.

In a HIMSS21 educational session, the health system's medical director for analytics goes in-depth describing how its source-of-truth dataset and de-identified COVID-19 data repository have made an impact.

Staff members are looking to make specialist visits more accessible, which could further improve patient satisfaction and lead to a faster and streamlined clinical process that may shorten length of stay and improve clinical outcome.

The pandemic drove many patients to their primary care docs via video. And it worked. A telehealth expert explains how this shift could become a permanent hybrid with in-person care.

In the latest installment of our COVID-19 era lessons learned feature series, execs with varied backgrounds put the patient at the center while pursuing IT transformation.