Digital Checkup (567)

Tyler LaPlaunt, assistant director at Upper Peninsula Health Care Solutions, discusses how low government funding and a lack of interoperability directly intersect with a scarcity of healthcare IT solutions in tribal communities.

Current manual methods for coordinating, verifying and advancing steps in a patient's clinical journey are creating havoc and burnout for providers, says Greg Miller, chief growth officer at health IT vendor Lumeon, who offers some solutions.

Patty Hayward, VP of industry strategy for healthcare and life sciences at Talkdesk, discusses the findings of a recent survey about the speed bumps on the patient-centric journey and what needs to be done.

Joerg Schwarz, senior director for healthcare interoperability strategy at Infor, unpacks some misconceptions about the ONC rule and its requirements, and offers tips for provider organizations who are bound by it.

Dave Brown, CEO at QiiQ and Thanos Melisiotis, CPO at QiiQ, discuss how artificial intelligence can help relieve clinicians' administrative burden so they can devote more time to direct patient care.

Dean Browell, chief behavioral officer at Feedback, outlines how feeling undervalued and disrespected contributes to clinician burnout, and how organizations of all sizes can attract and retain experienced doctors and nurses.

Odia Kagan, partner and chair of GDPR compliance and international privacy for Fox Rothschild LLP, offers insights and advice on minimizing the risks of third-party data sharing.

Clinical care teams monitor newly installed heart pumps from any of their devices – whether at the hospital or at home – and can improve patient and family communications, too, says Dawn Bardot, senior director global services for Abiomed.

Kristina Hutson, senior director of product development at Availity, explains the four big advantages electronic authorization can bring to a hospital or group practice.

Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at health IT company DrFirst, discusses how accurate medication history data, prescription fill insights and data scaled to specific populations can lead to better patient outcomes.

Brenda Schmidt, head of enterprise growth at Redesign Health, explains a collaboration that aims to find, build and scale digital health companies that focus on children.

Daniel Sergile, consulting director of Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks, discusses the increasingly expensive and debilitating threat landscape and why the healthcare industry is so susceptible to attacks.