Bill Siwicki

The COO of one of the largest direct healthcare providers in the country looks ahead at these and other trends she sees in the year ahead.

One major move was increasing its remote patient monitoring, providing additional tools and support to allow patients to feel comfortable recovering in their own home.

"With AI-enabled remote patient monitoring, we are streamlining our clinical workflow, improving our overhead and, most important, improving patient outcomes," the practice manager reports.

The technology has been proven to greatly reduce times to treatment.

One notable success at the behavioral healthcare organization has been a 35% increase in team members' use of evidence-based techniques since implementing the technology.

Maria Palombini, healthcare and life sciences practice lead at the IEEE Standards Association and a blockchain expert, offers a frank assessment of where distributed ledger technology is making progress and where it's lagging.

Telemedicine has, at long last, become very popular.

Steven Ramirez previews his HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum session, explaining how provider organizations can best avoid security problems that stem from associates outside their four walls.

More widespread use of telehealth has enabled continuity of care for patients across different specialties and helped prevent adverse outcomes, says the health center's COO.

Mutaz Shegewi, research director, provider IT transformation strategies, at IDC Health Insights, discusses innovations leading the evolution of EHRs and where EHR technology will be in a decade.