SPOTLIGHT -
PX: Balancing AI and the Human Element in Healthcare
Will physicians always be the ultimate arbiters of patient care, or does their humanness leave aspects of their workflow better served by artificial intelligence?
Digital Health Blunders and Wonders: Dark Billing & an Anti-Seizure Implantable
If you have patient engagement anywhere in your strategy, position statement, or marketing material, then you should have an open, honest, patient-friendly and transparent billing system.
PX: Overcoming Physician Resistance to New Tech, Disrupted Workflows
Despite it's long-term benefits, new tech inherently disrupts physicians' workflows. How can health execs overcome this cultural resistance?
Can Outside Disruptors Increase Patient Engagement?
Health systems are leaving a lot of value on the table when it comes to engaging their patients. What tools will improve the patient experience, and keep patients invested in improving their health?
Can Outside Disruption Save Healthcare?
Healthcare stands on the precipice of a digital revolution. Who will help usher in the new era it so sorely needs?
Digital Health Blunders and Wonders: Vaping & Seqster
On the inaugural episode of Blunders & Wonders, Dr. Nick Van Terheyden tackles e-cigs and Seqster, a new digital health integration app.
Searching for Value-based Care Solutions in Rural Pennsylvania
A CMMI-backed program transitions rural hospitals to a value-based, global budgeting model to evaluate outcomes and cost savings.
OIG: Medicare Billed for Millions in Noncompliant Telehealth Claims
The vast majority of incidents involved the program being billed for a telehealth encounter that did not originate in a rural location.
Our Biggest Takeaways from HIMSS 2018
Certain trendy technologies dominated the conversation, but good-old analytics still have the power to impress.
Stop Selling Yourselves as Blockchain Companies
Why one venture capitalist is becoming frustrated with startups that push technology over problem-solving.
Great Stories From the Ground at HIMSS
Our senior editor, Jack Murtha, runs down the biggest stories we've caught so far at HIMSS 2018.
Security War Stories: It's Not What You Know, It's What OCR Can Prove
Healthcare attorney Matt Fisher tells a cautionary tale about a health system that built its own EHR access monitoring tool.
Why Health-Tech's Sharpest Minds Still Need to Focus on the Fundamentals
"We have doctors doing life-and-death stuff every day and we've turned them into secretaries."
Investor War Stories: A Health App Goes Awry
At HIMSS 2018, Lee Shapiro of 7wire Ventures describes how an investment in a patient engagement app somehow yielded a vegan restaurant finder.
Lynda Chin, MD, Talks Hype and Reality in Medical AI
The woman who oversaw MD Anderson's controversial IBM Watson collaboration may know a thing or two about AI and expectations.
The Data Troubles that Specialty Pharma Makers Face
While disparate information can be linked back together, it is dependent on what the manufacturer is willing to pay.
Healthcare Must Seek Interoperability if It Wants to Understand Patients
If the patient is truly to be paramount, “I think a lot of effort still needs to be done,” John Giannouris said.
How New Tech and Specialty Pharmacies Could Fix Prescription Adherence
John Giannouris knows that the pharmaceutical industry is changing.
Emily Miraldi, PhD: How Data Scientists and Machine Learning Can Change Immunology
“There's a wonderful opportunity for computational biologists and people with computer science backgrounds to have an impact on experimental immunology."
Emily Miraldi, PhD: How Big Data and Genomics are Improving Infectious Disease Research
Genomic research, according to Miraldi, is a big data problem, and one that can continually offer insight and inspiration.
Medisafe's Omri Shor: Choosing the Right Tech Vendors
"You want to understand very quickly where it is going and what value it brings to you,” he said.
Shiela Sahni and John Nosta: Controlling the Message in Healthcare
Healthcare messaging used to be controlled in a hierarchical, top-down manner. The internet changed that.
Omri Shor: The 3 Forces Enabling Patient Engagement Technologies
Omri Shor sees 3 main forces in the healthcare industry colliding to create a “perfect storm” for better patient engagement technologies.
John Nosta and Sheila Sahni on Patient Privacy: Part 2
“If we give them ownership, it will help engagement [and] improve outcomes, because now they can get better care."
Campbell and Fisher: Turn Real-World Data into Real-World Evidence
"This is duplicate work, and frankly we can't afford it on either end anymore."
MACRA Implementation Will be Difficult Without Meaningful Quality Measures
“Overall, at the general population level, I've been actually surprised as to how well people understand it."
Mayo's Nilay Shah: Concerns About Predictive Analytics
"We don't know how much of the care the patients get out of our system. How complete is our predictive ability?
Jim O'Donoghue: How Providers Should Choose Their Tech Partners
"Really, technologists aren't going to be able to figure out what's going to work best for patients,” he said.
Mayo's Nilay Shah, PhD: Just Having the Analytics Isn't Enough
Predictive analytics are powerful, they’re everywhere, and they can be meaningless if not designed with a purpose.
Defining Quality with Mayo's Nilay Shah, PhD
“Billions and billions of dollars are spent on just measuring quality that could be used for actually delivering care.”