At HIMSS18 Google shared their vision for healthcare, the federal government showed renewed interest in personal health information access with a reboot of Blue Button and cybersecurity, machine learning, remote monitoring were more widely discussed.
"It hasn't necessarily proven its value in healthcare," Sara Vaezy, chief digital strategy officer at Providence St. Joseph Health, said of artificial intelligence. "There's an interesting potential future that could be realized, but it's just so early."
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
"Unfortunately, the announcement lacked many specific actions to effectively implement the initiative," Biden wrote in a Forbes commentary. "I agree with the administration's stated goals, but real action is needed — and now is the time."
Odd bedfellows among pharma and HIT, consumer and HIT, even among tech companies once considered rivals or in different areas of the value chain are coming together and figuring out how dogs and cats can not just get along, but create better, more cuddly offspring.
"I don't really think EHRs are truly walled off in any way," Carl Dvorak, president of Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic, said in an interview at HIMSS. "I just think it's hard."
During an interview at HIMSS, Johnson & Johnson CIO Stuart McGuigan called the company's involvement in the FDA's program "a huge opportunity," and pointed out that J&J is using digital health and AI to focus on consumers.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
CMS has recruited more than 100 organizations to join the CMS Medicare Blue Button 2.0 developer preview program, which was announced at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas this week.
The field of nursing informatics continues to grow. During a roundtable at HIMSS, three nurses touched on the significance of collaboration in nursing informatics, as well as tips to keep in mind while implementing digital tech.
At HIMSS, Girish Navani, cofounder and CEO of the EHR company, brushed aside questions on how it is recovering from the False Claims Act settlement, preferring to discuss interoperability.
Redox's deal with PointClickCare was its first partnership in senior care and could improve the way data is shared in the longterm care sector.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
During a HIMSS panel discussion hosted by Omnicell, leaders from Texas Children's Hospital, Rush University Medical Center and Rush Copley Medical Center discussed interoperability, predictive analytics and a few worries regarding artificial intelligence.
Salesforce has bolstered its capabilities with a new set of apps designed to support physicians' outreach to patinets
During a Tuesday morning session at HIMSS, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the MyHealthEData initiative, a government-wide project aimed at giving patients more control over their health information. She also said the agency is planning "a complete overhaul of the Meaningful Use program for hospitals."
Machine learning tools are certainly spawning some exciting applications such as using medical images to analyze tumors and offering a new way to improve clinical trial matching. But how long will it take for these tools to become part of mainstream medicine?