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• Digital transformation projects are an opportunity for healthcare CIOs

  Geisinger Health System CIO John Kravitz gives advice on how healthcare CIOs can lead a digital transformation project within their own organizations.  Continue Reading

• Value-based care models hung up on lack of resources

  The adoption of value-based care models in healthcare is hindered by a lack of resources, according to more than 1,000 respondents of a Definitive Healthcare value-based care trends survey.  Continue Reading

• Sharing health data gets easier, but also presents new challenges

  Sharing health data has never been easier thanks, in part, to EHR vendors and nonprofit organizations like CommonWell Health Alliance. But now there's a new problem: too much data.  Continue Reading

• Meditech EHR moves to public cloud, points to industry trend

  When EHR vendor Meditech partnered with Google Cloud Platform, it joined Cerner in a push toward the public cloud. The trend presents new opportunities and new challenges for healthcare CIOs.  Continue Reading

• In healthcare, a strong change management plan starts with buy-in

  A successful change management strategy should include creating a group to mitigate inevitable technology implementation pain points, according to healthcare leaders.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare transformation officers turn innovation into strategy

  Three healthcare executives charged with the role of transformation give specific examples of how they enacted change.  Continue Reading

• CIOs express hope, concern for proposed interoperability rule

  Proposed interoperability rules from ONC and CMS are on track to be finalized in November. Here, healthcare CIOs share their thoughts on how proposals will turn into practice.  Continue Reading

• Blockchain shows potential for healthcare claims data access

  Medical claims are gold mines of useful health information, but accessing them with HIPAA-compliant security is a universal headache. Blockchain might make it easier.  Continue Reading

• Chief transformation officer takes digital one step further

  You've heard of the chief digital officer, but what about the chief transformation officer? The title is gaining ground in healthcare and may suggest a digital maturity.  Continue Reading

• Promises for 5G in healthcare are great, but it's still early days

  Analysts offer insight into how 5G works, where it might make the most impact in healthcare and why some of what 5G may offer is more promise than reality.  Continue Reading

• 5G impact on healthcare a ways off, but CIOs shouldn't sit idle

  5G could benefit areas of healthcare like telehealth and remote patient monitoring. That reality is still a few years out, but CIOs should start planning for it now.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare cloud induces benefits in storage, security

  Healthcare sees value in vacating the premises and migrating to the cloud for lower maintenance costs and better storage, disaster recovery, security, AI and analytics.  Continue Reading

• Social determinants of health data provide better care

  Knowing the use cases for social determinants of health, such as coordinating care and identifying care gaps, is an important first step in making the data worthwhile.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare data breaches persist as security investments flounder

  Healthcare is still catching up to other industries in terms of investments in security and IT. This is complicated by the number of different systems that must be protected.  Continue Reading

• EASE app increases patient-provider communication

  EASE, a mobile healthcare app, can be used to send updates on patients from the OR to their families. Mobile apps like this create more transparency, but also present a challenge for CIOs.  Continue Reading