Analytics

Others say the "chaos" they initially faced as a result of the shift has largely calmed.

With the right information in hand, tomorrow’s healthcare providers will have the ability to make more intelligent, data-driven decisions about care, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs in the process.

The aim is to bulk up its cloud-based DOS platform with new cost and revenue insights. At Northwell, the same platform will help mine data for clinical, financial and operational improvements.

Using $2.5 million from the CARES Act, the agency will give money to as many as five new projects that boost health information exchanges through its new Star HIE program.

Whether addressing gaps in care, building dashboards for capacity planning or tackling fraud, waste and abuse, healthcare providers are depending on data more than ever, says Sue Willman, SVP and GM of Pharmacy and Data & Analytic Services at EXL.

In a HIMSS Learning Center presentation, Mayo CIO Cris Ross, Platform President Dr. John Halamka and other experts will show how the pandemic is accelerating the health system's infrastructure transformation.

The system, developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, can assess X-ray images and diagnose some conditions, but also appreciates its own limits.

“COVID-19 has taught us that digital health is the way that we will underpin new models of care, and that our staff and consumers are desperately keen to embrace digital,” said Dr Clair Sullivan.

The framework from Northwestern and UT Austin outlines the specific inpatient admission thresholds to help authorities determine when communities should enact short-term shelter-in-place orders.

Dr. Robert Redfield said during a House subcommittee hearing that he was only told about the decision once it had already been made by HHS.