Thoughts from the CHIME chairman
Chuck Christian: “So if the CIO is really going to be a senior leader in their organization, they need to translate insights from the world into potential strategy that they can share with their colleagues in the c-suite.”
Thoughts from the AMA president
Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Dr. Robert Wah on what’s needed to drive tech adoption among physicians:
- Transform electronic health record technology into the patient-focused tool it was always meant to be
- Expand the reach of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring technology
- Apply lessons from the current regulatory framework to unlock innovation and the adoption of new technologies
Ouch, HIMSS! How does this taste?
Via Business Wire: “A new survey by Accenture (NYSE:ACN) found that most U.S. doctors are more proficient using electronic medical records (EMR) than they were two years ago, but fewer believe that EMR has improved treatment decisions, reduced medical errors or improved health outcomes.”
The Healthcare Payments Industry Faces a Perception Challenge
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
The first HISTalk Roundup
Remember: healthcare swag is now referred to as “pieces of flair.”
The best from Healthcare IT News
- For nurses, IT poised to be game changer
- Startups are “burning out the doctors”
- Providers have to “innovate now so you can keep the hearts and minds of your patients.”
- 4 keys to core measure compliance
- In rethinking revenue cycle, there’s no time to wait
HIMSS by the Social Media Numbers
More than 54 million served on Sunday.
Monday’s Hot Ticket
Alex Gourlay, president of Walgreens and executive vice president of Walgreens Boots Alliance, is the 8 a.m. keynote
Let the product launches begin
HIMSS formally announced ConCert by HIMSS, the interoperability testing and certification program (watch the video).
Quality Systems’ subsidiary Mirth has announced a new population health management platform, Mirth Care Enterprises.
HIMSS Humor
Irony: just flew over a million actual clouds to go to #HIMSS15 to hear a million people talk about fake clouds — Lisa Suennen (@VentureValkyrie) April 12, 2015
Least effective tweet in world: we are awesome. Come check out our awesome awesomeness at booth #1234. #himss15
— Leonard Kish (@leonardkish) April 12, 2015