By Teray Johnson, Director, Data Automation and Transformation, Lifepoint Health In 2020, hospitals across the world were in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Burnout was rampant among administrative and clinical staff. The promise of the EHR to reduce physicians’ ...

By Mark Sullivan, Associate Chief Pharmacy Officer, Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics Today’s health system pharmacy leaders face a myriad of challenges related to using technology in pharmacy practice. Strategic planning for capital support for larger systems has become a ...

By Michael Kos, VP of Revenue Cycle, Memorial Health One of the leading healthcare organizations in IL, Memorial Health based in Springfield is a five-hospital, community-based, not-for-profit organization that provides a full range of inpatient, outpatient, home health, hospice, behavioral ...

By Dan Howard, CIO, San Ysidro Health Some of you may remember the 1982 blockbuster movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which a young boy named Elliot finds an alien visitor from another planet stranded in his backyard. Like most kids, ...

By Brian Dobosh, VP Digital Systems and IT&S, RWJBarnabas Health In my sixteen-year career at RWJBarnabas Health, I have seen the dawn of the modern-day Electronic Health Record (EHR). The health system has grown significantly since 2006 through mergers, acquisitions, ...

By Zafar Chaudry, MD, MS, MIS, MBA, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Seattle Children's The need for agile IT infrastructure has never been greater. Two years into the pandemic, healthcare IT leaders face numerous challenges and increasing pressure to ...

By Craig Richardville, SVP, Chief Information and Digital Officer, SCL Health One of the more interesting challenges that health system IT executives face today is evaluating and prioritizing new clinical applications for AI. Among the rapidly expanding number of innovations ...

By Michael Zelenetz, Director Data Management and Analytics, White Plains Hospital We are at the peak of electronic medical record (EMR) despair. We were promised a utopian future where EMRs would improve communication, reduce the burden on handwritten notes and ...

By Sri Bharadwaj, VP Digital Innovation and Applications, Franciscan Health The Changing Healthcare Business Model: Do we really need an EMR? It is interesting that we see that “necessity is the mother of invention” coming to become so true in ...

By Marijka Grey, MD, MBA, FACP, System VP, Ambulatory Transformation and Innovation, CommonSpirit Health Physicians hate change. Physicians hate technology. Although erroneous, these beliefs are pervasive in the tech world: an overwhelming attitude that physicians are technophobes. I’m here to ...

By Dr. Neal Chawla, CMIO, WakeMed Health & Hospitals A common thread among health systems and physician practices, particularly over the last 10 years, was the introduction and adoption of electronic health records. In most cases, it took a year ...

By Nicole Elvidge, AVP Digital and Core Product Management, Baptist Health South Florida Thanks to technology, our lives are connected and convenient in so many aspects. However, while everything from getting a ride to ordering groceries is as simple as ...

By Robin Damschroder, EVP & CFO and Steve Hathaway, SVP Finance & CRO, Henry Ford Health System At Henry Ford Health System, our Revenue Cycle leadership with support of the Revenue Cycle Transformation Consulting and Analytics team, utilizes an annual ...

By Sean D Mooney, Ph.D., FACMI, Chief Research Information Officer, UW Medicine The clinics and hospitals you lead accumulated large amounts of patient treatment data since the implementation of EHR systems. The promise of AI and data science in healthcare ...

By GQ Zhang, VP & Chief Data Scientist, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Physician Burnout Physician or clinician burnout, perhaps an underestimated and unintended consequence of the 2009 HITECH Act, negatively impacts patient care, clinician ...

By Tinu Tadese, MD FACHE, VP, Clinical Informatics & CMIO, Lake Health System I was privileged to get into Health IT right around when the Meaningful Use initiative was the Healthcare industry buzz. The whole point of the initiative was ...

By Derek D. Drawhorn, Associate VP of IT Infrastructure, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Migration to the cloud is an ever-present reality in most organizations. Healthcare is certainly no exception. Healthcare was not as fast to adopt ...

By Andy Draper PhD, CIO & Dr. Mark Radlauer, CMIO at HCA Healthcare Continental Division On June 30, 2020, IBM Watson Health announced the annual 15 Top Health System awards based on published quality outcomes from the Centers for Medicare ...

By Joseph Cacchione, MD, FACC, Executive Vice President, Clinical & Network Services, Ascension There is no question that healthcare has been lagging in technology innovation. However, consumer demand is driving transformation, pushing us toward implementation of more personalized, higher quality ...

By Christina Perez, Network Operations, ACO & CIO, Tenet Healthcare In healthcare, when one thinks Patients and IT, we think Apps for fitness, calorie counting, and patient education tips but for many physicians they think Patient Portal. Physicians due to ...

By Megan Zannetti, VP of Revenue Cycle, Graham Healthcare Group The healthcare industry is constantly changing in ways that healthcare providers cannot control. Changes in payor billing requirements and payment models, along with fluctuations in patient demographics and health conditions ...

By Dr. Sarah Kramer, MD, CMIO, Yuma Regional Medical Center We live in an era of incredibly mature electronic health systems and decision support. While some technologies, such as block-chain and artificial intelligence have yet to show their full potential, ...

By Pamela Arora, SVP CIO and Katherine Lusk, Chief Health Information Management & Exchange Officer, Children's Health In 2012, Children’s HealthSM faced two significant environmental changes that held the potential to impact provider workflow vis-a-vis additional documentation requirements. And if ...

By Beverly Jordan, Vice President and Chief Information and Transformation Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care While electronic health records are mandated under the Affordable Care Act, the real key to making an EHR beneficial for everyone is understating how it works ...

 By Venkat Bhamidipati, EVP & CFO, Providence St. Joseph Health When I joined Providence St. Joseph Health, one of the country's largest health systems, I understood health care to be a sector ripe for innovation. My expertise is not on ...

By Christopher Ault, VP, Revenue Cycle, Cooper University Health Care As healthcare continues to transform into a consumer-driven marketplace, it’s incumbent on every employee of every provider organization to understand how they can positively impact the patient experience at their ...

By Patrick A. Woodard, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer for IT, Renown Health One need not have read Dr. Atul Gawande's recent 9,000-word essay or visited a physicians’ lounge to know that doctors are not fans of the electronic medical ...

By Amer Saati, MD, MS, Physician Informaticist, Northwell Health One of the new trends in health IT is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare settings. It has been a black box to many healthcare professionals and front end ...

By Cagatay Culcuoglu MBA, Chief Technology Officer, Massive Bio Inc, and Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla MD MSEd, Chief Medical Officer, Massive Bio Inc, and Vice Chairman of Medical Oncology, Cancer Treatment Centers of America Several industries have been transforming by the implementation ...

By Priya Radhakrishnan, Faculty Physician, Medical Director, Chief Academic Officer, HonorHealth When I was a kid, I was convinced that we would be beaming up as Scotty had shown us, instead of flying or driving. I was also certain that ...