Strategic Planning
The editors of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and MobiHealthNews discuss the telehealth bill that was scuttled in 2024, as well as what's ahead in 2025 regarding the RPM market, physicians' pay schedule and cybersecurity policy.
Chief AI officers can help organizations address clinical issues, such as C. diff inspections and sepsis, and broader needs like scheduling, resources and improving the backend, says Zachary Durst, IT practice consultant at WittKieffer.
John Saran, a partner at Holland & Knight, says now that the election is over and uncertainty has been addressed, healthcare clients are generally optimistic and are anticipating a return to normal when it comes to deal making in 2025.
A lot of things are moving healthcare interoperability forward. The amount of progress that's been made even in the past 18 months is amazing and a lot of people are paying attention to it, says Dan Torrens, eHealth Technologies CEO.
Josh Di Frances, vice president and head of incubation at LG NOVA, highlights the winners of the company’s 2024 Startup Pitch Competition held annually at LG NOVA’s annual InnoFest, which included mDETECT, Glidance and Oncoustics.
Cindy Henry, director of population health informatics at ZeOmega, explores the recent trends in Star Ratings, the contributing factors behind lower scores across the board and strategies to adapt as the program's standards continue to rise.
Eric Smith, chief digital officer at Memorial Hermann Health System, discusses the health systems' AI governance council and the use of AI in its day-to-day operations - including patient interactions and ambient listening.
The chief AI officer should understand basic principles about AI, have a computing background and know the ultimate clinical use case, says UC San Diego Health Chief Health AI Officer Dr. Karandeep Singh.
Businesses have to be able to recover from that, says Heather Costa, director of technology resilience for the Mayo Clinic, who was formerly known as the director of disaster recovery.
Call centers are revenue-generating tools for healthcare facilities, rather than expense centers. AI can be used for workforce management to project volume fluctuations, says Yuriy Kotlyar, cofounder and CEO of American Health Connection.