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Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has 36 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 12:25 pm | April 11, 2024
The center created the Charisma Virtual Social Coaching platform. To date, 90% of participants have reported gains in recognizing and managing emotions. The center now is adding generative AI capabilities.
Nursing and IT
By Bill Siwicki | 11:39 am | April 10, 2024
Before deploying the technology, staff was 67% core staff, 8% flexible staff and 25% agency staff. Afterward, the mix became 69% core, 23% flexible and gig staff, and only 8% agency staff.
By Bill Siwicki | 12:50 pm | April 09, 2024
Chief Digital and Information Officer Craig Richardville stresses three tenets: simplicity, alignment and risk sharing.
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 11:52 am | April 08, 2024
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Center now relies on videos as part of its virtual care program to educate patients. One of many benefits: It has reduced inbound patient questions – for every 15 questions nurses used to get, now they get only one.
AI & ML Intelligence
By Bill Siwicki | 01:59 pm | April 05, 2024
Meanwhile, it's already finding success with AI-enabled patient portals – and ambient scribing is showing big promise too. The Baltimore health system's digital health physician leader explains.
Cybersecurity In Focus
By Bill Siwicki | 01:13 pm | April 05, 2024
Poorly controlled cloud environments, growing access to systems, heightened regulatory scrutiny and significant deals activity will require healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders to bolster the defenses.
AI & ML Intelligence
By Bill Siwicki | 01:12 pm | April 04, 2024
Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, senior medical director of digital health and innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses how artificial intelligence helps gain efficiencies throughout the patient journey and enable advances in individual health tracking.
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 12:07 pm | April 03, 2024
And the telemedicine technology has increased the number of surgeries. It has enabled surgeons to feel comfortable performing more surgeries knowing they have available the clinical expertise to care for those patients in recovery in the ICU.
Cybersecurity In Focus
By Bill Siwicki | 12:45 pm | April 02, 2024
Darren Lacey discusses the key foundational technologies underlying healthcare's IT infrastructure, and how innovative approaches to open-source tooling and memory safe languages can help improve health systems' cybersecurity posture.
Success Stories & ROI
By Bill Siwicki | 12:49 pm | April 01, 2024
And technology is key, as the health system's new Consumer Data Hub provides a secure 360-degree view of the patient, while its new Enterprise Data Fabric unifies diverse data sources – offering immediate access and enabling advanced AI-powered analytics.