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"We're trying to get a hold of them," he said. "In the meantime, we measure compliance with process."

Why healthcare companies need to trade their "mom-and-pop," experience-based instincts for a data- and outcome-driven attitude.

“One of the best parts about being a part of this industry right now is we have data. We have tons of data,” social strategy creator Dawn Lacallade says.

"We provide valuable services, patients provide more data...then we can better personalize and improve those services."

Allowing physicians to not hate their technology seems attainable, if healthcare wants to achieve it

"It's a bittersweet relationship that you have with VistA," the VA doctor said, indicating that there were pros and cons to the original EHR system.

"We need to act and feel like a colleague of the physician. That means culture, that means language, and that means design…"

Despite the “buzzword” status of interoperability, it is the most important pursuit for the healthcare technology community in coming years.

The Figure 1 CMO is optimistic, but he does not expect "fully functional robot doctors wheeling around the hospital diagnosing patients."

"It's not that physicians aren't eager to innovate," said Amit Phull, MD: it's that often the tech they are given was made without their input.

Why it might be smart for some healthcare companies to build their own data warehouses.

He underscored the importance of quality measurement and old-fashioned competition in encouraging doctors to use best practices.

"Issues which are very sort of granular and boring are actually going to be incredibly important when you're talking about this kind of money."

Medical Director Doug L. Wood sat down with Healthcare Analytics News to discuss how his institution is able to help other healthcare providers make the right care decisions.

The outspoken physician, healthcare administrator, and author does belive that machines will replace radiologists sooner rather than later, though.

Doug L. Wood, Medical Director at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, detailed the pros and cons of hospital analytics.

Despite being the creator of innovative drug pricing technology, he believes medical tech has remained somewhat static in the past 30 years.

"We continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars trying to produce these measures, which for some people are irrelevant."

The work is so inspiring, Laura Adams said, that sometimes she wishes she did not have to sleep.

The CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute described fee-for-service as a "toxic payment model."

Adams discusses how Rhode Island Quality Institute's efforts towards a statewide health information database have been applied to the opioid crisis.

The President of the Biden Cancer Initiative speaks on the "sails in the water" holding back the fight against cancer, including a lack of interoperability.

In Part 2 of the interview, Bradley speaks to what makes analytics in healthcare unique, the breadth and integrity of provider data, and how better financial interactions with patients may improve their perception of healthcare providers

In the second part of an interview with CMO Daniel Lace, the doctor turned the conversation to how he defines value-based care.

The CMO of Leaders in Medicine sat down with Healthcare Analytics News for a ranging interview focused on value-based care and innovation.

In the final interview installment, David Engelhardt of ReadyDock Inc., speaks of how the company’s collaboration with Samsung can clean a device of bacteria and data alike.

In Part 2 of his interview with HCA News, David Engelhardt, the founder of ReadyDock Inc., discussed the company's chemical-free mobile and tablet disinfection device designed to mitigate the burden of hospital-acquired infections. Here, Engelhardt details how ReadyDock’s technology works and infection-causing bacteria it can kill.

David Engelhardt, the founder of ReadyDock Inc., met up with HCA News for an interview at the HIMSS17 conference in Orlando, Florida. ReadyDock is chemical-free mobile and tablet disinfection device designed to mitigate the burden of hospital-acquired infections. In this section, Engelhardt speaks of the severity and complexity of the infection issue.

Trivalent’s Vice President of Products Yiannis Vassiliades sat down with HCA News to talk about challenges for the industry and the HIMSS experience.

Yiannis Vassiliades of Trivalent details how building data security for defense informs healthcare information security.