Medication Management & Patient-Centered Care Coordination Across the Continuum: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Introduction Medication management plays a vital role in value-based care, affecting both quality and cost. Patients who receive and take evidence-based medications as prescribed by their physicians are more likely to have good outcomes and are less likely to experience avoidable hospital readmissions and other costly interventions. By improving health outcomes and lowering costs, providers… read more
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How Each Digital Health Most Wired Participant Contributes to Efforts to Improve Care
By Bill Spooner Four years ago, the Digital Health Most Wired Governing Board vowed that the survey we are responsible for overseeing each year would move the industry forward. Our goal with the survey is to identify and share best practices from top-performing healthcare organizations so we can raise standards across the industry. With the… read more
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Relieving the Burden of Day-to-Day Operations to Drive Innovation
Senior digital healthcare executives increasingly are being viewed as essential members of their organization’s strategic leadership team, providing a long-term vision for technology’s role in the growth of the enterprise. At the same time, they need to ensure that day-to-day technical operations run smoothly. Most CIOs straddle the two worlds; those in organizations well along… read more
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Year in Review: COVID-19 Impact: Challenges and Implications for Digital Health
One year ago this month, the World Health Organization designated COVID-19 a pandemic and soon after the U.S. federal government declared a national emergency. The days and months that followed are now an all-too familiar story of stay-at-home orders, surges, under-resourced hospitals and overburdened clinicians battling the novel coronavirus. Their heroic efforts saved countless lives,… read more
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Addressing Health Inequities in Healthcare: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
By Candace Stuart The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted racial inequities and the devastating impact on communities of color and marginalized citizens in our society. Healthcare leaders recognize that racial disparities contribute to a public health crisis that shortens lives and reduces quality of life. Unintentional bias in the selection of the data used to design… read more
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Managing Digital Identities During and After a Pandemic: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift in digital healthcare from its traditional boundaries of hospitals and other healthcare facilities to a new frontier that now includes employees’ home offices and patients’ residences. Clinicians, often serving in multiple roles, can access multiple devices from multiple locations, making the management of their digital identities exponentially more complex at a time when the security threat has never been greater. Using the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) “Framework for CISOs to Manage Identity” as a foundation, Imprivata offers a digital identity platform to help healthcare executives and their organizations navigate this challenging environment.
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Envisioning a Future-Forward Healthcare Ecosystem and its Pathway: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare, causing seismic shifts in care delivery, a strain on healthcare organizations’ resources and uncertainty about near- and long-term growth. These disruptions also have provided an unheralded opportunity to innovate, adapt business models and reimagine a healthcare ecosystem that expands beyond the hospital walls to home and outpatient settings… read more
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The Need for Evidence Based Security
In recent years, there has been an uptick in cybersecurity spending within most organizations, yet at the same time there has not been a corresponding downtick in data breaches. In fact, studies show that despite this increase in expenditure, data breaches are actually on the rise.
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How Is COVID-19 Shaping the Healthcare Industry In the USA?
At some point, the COVID-19 will be gone for good, but it has already affected the healthcare sector to a significant extent.
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Digital Health Leaders: Russ Branzell connects with Veneeth Purushotaman, Group CIO at Aster DM Healthcare
In this episode, Russ chats with Veneeth Purushotaman, Group CIO at Aster DM Healthcare about commonalities in the COVID-19 experience, managing change and the importance of community, and recovery – both economically and within the healthcare industry.
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A CHIME Thought Leaders Roundtable: Using Data Analytics to Change Outcomes and Behaviors
Many healthcare organizations have a wealth of data, thanks in part to the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) across the U.S. But data alone is not useful.
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