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• Population health management programs require goal alignment

  In this Q&A, KLAS population health researcher Bradley Hunter says successful population health management programs hinge on goal alignment.  Continue Reading

• Technology companies in healthcare are driving positive change

  Why are Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google so focused on the healthcare industry? Financial opportunity and patient expectation.  Continue Reading

• Population health approaches buoy value-based care

  Value-based care extends population health's use of data analytics to identify care gaps and cost reductions. A prominent college dean sees the efforts always being connected.  Continue Reading

• Advice to healthcare CIOs: Be willing to share wins and losses

  Being a successful CIO means building relationships across the healthcare industry and establishing a good team within an organization, the CHIME-HIMSS CIO of the Year says.  Continue Reading

• VR in healthcare is changing the patient care game

  Healthcare professionals are using virtual reality to provide better care for patients and better training for doctors.  Continue Reading

• Collective Medical software enables ERs to share patient info

  Software from Collective Medical is helping ERs in Oregon share patient data almost immediately. Here's a look at how that kind of connectivity is benefiting one hospital.  Continue Reading

• Modus V brings robotic assistance to neurosurgery

  Modus V may be the first robot assistant for neurosurgeons. Sebastian Koga, M.D., called the robotically controlled digital microscope an extension of a surgeon's vision.  Continue Reading

• AI in radiology is having a moment -- one that has staying power

  Two radiologists provide examples of how AI is making its mark in their field, such as comparing old and new images and helping prioritize critical cases.  Continue Reading

• Transition to value-based care needs data integration

  By using AI-powered data analytics from DOS, providers could have a holistic view of a patient's treatment plan, while patient data is secured with Microsoft Azure cloud service.  Continue Reading

• Clinical processes, not AI, key to solving healthcare's problems

  Partners' Sandy Aronson has a message for healthcare IT pros: If you want to have an impact, focus on making clinical processes more effective and more efficient.  Continue Reading

• Hospital taps Parachute Health to cut cord on fax machine

  New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery deployed software from Parachute Health Inc. to bring the fax machine directly to its EHR system.  Continue Reading

• Remote patient monitoring technology major focus of new AMA guide

  The American Medical Association created the Digital Health Implementation Playbook, which provides a step-by-step guide to technology implementation, with a focus on remote patient monitoring.  Continue Reading

• Integration of PGHD boosts remote patient management

  End users of a patient-generated health data program talk about the advantages and challenges they encountered first hand, including connection problems from the patient device end.  Continue Reading

• Future of connected healthcare includes chatbots, Medicare changes

  Remote patient monitoring and chatbots will be mainstream in healthcare -- eventually. Partners HealthCare's Joseph Kvedar, M.D., offers his view on why it takes so long.  Continue Reading

• Machine learning in healthcare: Software detects drug theft

  Using machine learning, Invistics software provides a real-time look at drug theft incidents, according to one health system's drug diversion specialist.  Continue Reading