Clinical

At the 2022 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston, keynote speaker Anita Allen described the delicate and complex balance between the imperative of data sharing and the need to protect privacy.

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.

Anita Allen, professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, says "data sharing is the new health ethic," in a preview of her keynote address at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum.

Bob Segert sees the company as viable for a public offering after three years of its life as a private entity. Meanwhile, athenahealth announced a new clinical advisory board this week to tackle provider burnout and other EHR documentation challenges.

There are still a lot of misconceptions about the ONC rule and its requirements, says Joerg Schwarz, senior director for healthcare interoperability strategy at Infor, who offers some tips for provider organizations.

The researchers will explore the structure-function relationships that may be overlooked in cardiovascular physiology through the joint research effort.

While understanding and reconciling drugs after discharge from the hospital can be challenging, it's a necessity for greater efficacy of care delivery. HL7's Da Vinci project can help.

Artificial intelligence can help relieve clinicians' administrative burden so they can devote more time to direct patient care, say Dave Brown and Thanos Melitsiotis of QiiQ.

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

The cloud-based platform provides security, scale and the processing power needed for genomic data storage and analyses, eliminating the need for specialized infrastructure and workflows.