By Anand Ramaswamy, Senior Director - Technical Architecture (Digital), Hospital for Special Surgery While scheduling a flu shot appointment, I encountered a workflow issue highlighting several drawbacks and drop-offs. After receiving a text notification regarding my appointment, I found no ...

By Saad Chaudhry, CIO, Luminis Health The recent pandemic years have changed many aspects of healthcare, from how it is delivered to how it is paid for and subsidized. With limitations on in-person interaction and extreme staffing shortages, many aspects ...

By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS, Physician Solutions Analyst III, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Interoperability sits behind the scenes making sure that different systems can talk to each other and exchange data. It makes sure ...

By Deborah Gash, SVP Chief Digital Officer, Saint Luke’s Health System As a 16-hospital, an integrated health system serving 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas, Saint Luke’s Health System has faced challenges: increased demand for care, higher patient acuity, and ...

By Jason Wood, MBA, MS, CIO, EvergreenHealth The impact of technology has empowered individuals to expect a seamless, consumer-focused experience across every aspect of their lives. Being able to order something to your doorstep, or manage your finances with a ...

By Chris Grasso, CIO, Fenway Community Health Health Information Technology (HIT) became a lifeline during COVID by allowing health care organizations across the United States to utilize digital tools to engage patients and provide care. Historically, many health care providers ...

By Emily Lafeir, Sr. Director of Innovation and Automation, Geisinger The healthcare industry is at the forefront of digital innovation and evolution. Advancing digital technology adoption has the potential to improve the health care consumer and patient experience and also ...

By Scott Arnold, EVP & CIO, Tampa General Hospital There is no shortage of investments being made to create, optimize and fortify the “digital front door” at healthcare organizations. Consumer expectations are increasing to a point that loyalty to a ...

By Priya Radhakrishnan, MD, FACP, Chief Academic Officer and VP Health Equity, HonorHealth Health and health care inequities: systematic, measurable, and avoidable differences in health-related outcomes between populations are increasing in the United States. Access to healthy food, reliable transportation, ...

By Bashir Agboola, VP & CTO, Hospital for Special Surgery The healthcare sector represents a large part of the global economy and is the fastest-growing sector in many countries. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, healthcare spending as a percentage ...

By Jeremy Cauwels, MD, chief physician, Sanford Health Sanford Health plans to use cutting-edge technologies to provide more care options for patients and families living in rural and underserved parts of the Midwest. The time has come for the digital-access ...

By Nader Mherabi, Chief Digital & Information Officer, EVP and Vice Dean, NYU Langone Health and Joseph Zuckerman, MD, Chair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Health At NYU Langone Health, we perform over 100,000 elective surgeries annually across our ...

What does your digital front door say about your organization? By Tim Schoener, CHCIO, MBA, CIO, UPMC in Central and North Central Pa As expected, the 2021 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CIO Fall Forum in San Diego ...

By Dr.Lauren Vivian, CHIO, Pacific Medical Group COVID-19 shed light on many health disparities and inequities within the U.S healthcare system. While many of those shortcomings were discussed at length before the pandemic, analysts predicted that a health crisis such ...

By Dr. Neal Chawla, CMIO, WakeMed Health & Hospitals A common thread among health systems and physician practices, particularly over the last 10 years, was the introduction and adoption of electronic health records. In most cases, it took a year ...

By Charleeda Redman, VP Strategy Integration, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia When asked to share my professional journey, I frequently state: “Regardless of my title, I am a clinical informaticist who looks for opportunities to apply technology to support the healthcare ...

By Mark Kandrysawtz, VP & Chief Innovation Officer, WellSpan Health Technology permeates every aspect of health care, from the equipment used in surgery to the way physicians take notes during a patient visit. But we now have entered an era ...

By Inderpal Kohli, AVP IT Clinical Applications and Training, Hospital for Special Surgery The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of healthcare both for clinicians and patients, including in the area of clinical imaging. There is, however, one set ...

By Kathy Azeez-Narain, Chief Digital Officer, Hoag Health care institutions have traditionally focused on sick care, which means that we serve most of our patients through our physical locations and when they need us. The role of technology traditionally has ...

By Kenan Katranji, Senior Director of Digital Health, NYC Health + Hospitals Hospital At Home The patient is 67 y/o M w/ PMH of DM2 discharged home from ED with CHF. The patient was sent home with a digital scale, ...