HIMSS23

David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems, discusses how Medicare Advantage evaluates how well providers manage each patient. Care teams must be proactive in determining what the individual patient needs.

A.C. Locklear, federal relations director for the National Indian Health Board, is looking to other groups with similar issues for new and innovative solutions to tribal health issues.

Calum Yacoubian, director of healthcare strategy at IQVIA, outlines natural language processing use cases, such as aggregating data for population health initiatives and supporting rare disease diagnoses for precision medicine.

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of Illinois Department of Health, explains how the data IDPH has on hand can be used to better understand its communities and improve residents' lives.

Early discharge programs address staffing shortages and capacity concerns by observing patients virtually in the comfort of their homes, states Kuldeep Singh Rajput, founder and CEO of Biofourmis.

John Gaines, VP of marketing at Cohere Health, describes the challenges providers face in getting prior authorizations and how new CMS guidelines will speed up the process by mandating that it be done electronically.

Rather than managing things after they break, Cherish CEO Sumit Nagpal discusses migrating the healthcare economy to preventative care to assure health.

Gita Barry, president of immersive healthcare at Penumbra, discusses the uses of immersive VR technology for therapy in healthcare settings and at home, and its potential to engage patients and employees.

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare, talks about how virtual providers free up clinicians' time by handling "triple R" – routine, repeatable and rules-based – care visits that can occupy more than 50% of a physician's day.

Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet, highlights announcements from the HIMSS23 cybersecurity forum aimed at helping healthcare practices improve protection as phishing becomes more sophisticated.