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Marc Probst, longtime chief information officer at Intermountain Healthcare and new CIO at ELLKAY, also discusses the cost challenges facing healthcare now – and the IT innovation he sees emerging from the COVID-19 crisis.
Outside-the-four-walls threats include makeshift triage units, but moving fast does not have to mean moving unwisely, says cybersecurity expert Randy Bradley.
Digital health titans Teladoc Health and Livongo are merging under the Teladoc name, CMS proposes telehealth changes under Trump's executive order, and the Taskforce on Telehealth Policy holds a town hall to solicit public input.
PeriGen CEO Matthew Sappern describes how remote patient monitoring can help balance staff safety with patient needs.
Sparrow Health had the infrastructure in place to be first in line to do virtual care when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, says Dr. Michael Zaroukian, VP, CMIO and CTO of the health system.
Dr. Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, senior medical director at HealthEC, discusses how her company is able to identify the top 10 percent of a client's patients who are at highest risk for a severe outcome due to COVID-19.
Change Healthcare has seen some big changes of its own in the year since its IPO, says CEO Neil de Crescenzo, who describes how it's been tailoring its technologies to help payers, providers and patients during the pandemic.
Westchester Medical Center added strength to its 10-hospital system by creating redundancy in cross-coverage by physicians and specific COVID-19 workflows, claim Medical Director Corey Scurlock and Caregility's Wendy Deibert.
Prospective analytics must include business continuity scenarios that can be upended 180 degrees, says Peyman Zand, VP of CereCore.
The pandemic has forced the adoption of telehealth and other technologies that already existed, says Cam Deemer, president of DrFirst.
Now that the virtual health platform is mainstream, future efforts will likely focus on the disparity in numbers between patients and providers.
The front door needs to be easy to open and extend beyond the system's website to search engines and guided interactions like text and chat, say Erin Jospe, MD, chief medical officer at Kyruus, and AVIA VP Sonia Singh.