The Wolf in the Woods: Taming Medication Management with Technology (A Thought Leadership Roundtable)
“The question is, why aren’t we more focused on medication management? And the answer is that health care tends to focus on the wolf closest to the sled. So, if there are eight wolves gathered around the sled, we’re not focusing on the wolf that’s off in the woods.” Daniel Barchi, CIO, NewYork-Presbyterian Introduction… read more
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Machine Learning in Healthcare: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Introduction Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently hosted a thought leadership roundtable featuring six members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) to discuss machine learning (ML) in healthcare organizations. Chief information officers (CIOs) and chief digital and information officers (CDIOs) discussed best practices and how to realize the full potential of ML to improve patient outcomes and organizational efficiency. CHIME President… read more
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Solving Healthcare Business Challenges with New Service Models: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Introduction Driving innovation and continuous improvement in healthcare while balancing limited resources is an ongoing challenge. Chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information and digital officers (CIDOs) often find themselves in a crisis management capital-rationing cycle that requires a massive time investment simply to keep technology systems performing to standards. As the CIO/CIDO role expands… read more
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Medication Management & Patient-Centered Care Coordination Across the Continuum: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Introduction Medication management plays a vital role in value-based care, affecting both quality and cost. Patients who receive and take evidence-based medications as prescribed by their physicians are more likely to have good outcomes and are less likely to experience avoidable hospital readmissions and other costly interventions. By improving health outcomes and lowering costs, providers… read more
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How Each Digital Health Most Wired Participant Contributes to Efforts to Improve Care
By Bill Spooner Four years ago, the Digital Health Most Wired Governing Board vowed that the survey we are responsible for overseeing each year would move the industry forward. Our goal with the survey is to identify and share best practices from top-performing healthcare organizations so we can raise standards across the industry. With the… read more
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Relieving the Burden of Day-to-Day Operations to Drive Innovation
Senior digital healthcare executives increasingly are being viewed as essential members of their organization’s strategic leadership team, providing a long-term vision for technology’s role in the growth of the enterprise. At the same time, they need to ensure that day-to-day technical operations run smoothly. Most CIOs straddle the two worlds; those in organizations well along… read more
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Year in Review: COVID-19 Impact: Challenges and Implications for Digital Health
One year ago this month, the World Health Organization designated COVID-19 a pandemic and soon after the U.S. federal government declared a national emergency. The days and months that followed are now an all-too familiar story of stay-at-home orders, surges, under-resourced hospitals and overburdened clinicians battling the novel coronavirus. Their heroic efforts saved countless lives,… read more
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Addressing Health Inequities in Healthcare: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
By Candace Stuart The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted racial inequities and the devastating impact on communities of color and marginalized citizens in our society. Healthcare leaders recognize that racial disparities contribute to a public health crisis that shortens lives and reduces quality of life. Unintentional bias in the selection of the data used to design… read more
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Managing Digital Identities During and After a Pandemic: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift in digital healthcare from its traditional boundaries of hospitals and other healthcare facilities to a new frontier that now includes employees’ home offices and patients’ residences. Clinicians, often serving in multiple roles, can access multiple devices from multiple locations, making the management of their digital identities exponentially more complex at a time when the security threat has never been greater. Using the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) “Framework for CISOs to Manage Identity” as a foundation, Imprivata offers a digital identity platform to help healthcare executives and their organizations navigate this challenging environment.
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Envisioning a Future-Forward Healthcare Ecosystem and its Pathway: A Thought Leadership Roundtable
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted healthcare, causing seismic shifts in care delivery, a strain on healthcare organizations’ resources and uncertainty about near- and long-term growth. These disruptions also have provided an unheralded opportunity to innovate, adapt business models and reimagine a healthcare ecosystem that expands beyond the hospital walls to home and outpatient settings… read more
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The Need for Evidence Based Security
In recent years, there has been an uptick in cybersecurity spending within most organizations, yet at the same time there has not been a corresponding downtick in data breaches. In fact, studies show that despite this increase in expenditure, data breaches are actually on the rise.
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