The Impact on Underserved Communities in Times of Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread throughout the globe and the United States and exposed the fragile state of our healthcare system, specifically in underserved communities.
Healthcare Interoperability and Its Impact on Administrative Burden in the Age of Machine Learning
Interoperability is the ability to transfer healthcare-related information across systems and organizational boundaries. This article focuses on reducing administrative burdens tied to interoperability and machine learning.
Artificial Intelligence in Health: Ethical Considerations for Research and Practice
This article examines four core principles necessary to address the design, development and use of AI technology and ethical considerations for research and practice.
Advancing Patient Experience and Outcomes with Analytics
This article explores the social determinants of health impact on healthcare and ways to close critical care gaps, including cancer screenings using advanced analytics and psychographic segmentation to identify at-risk patients, tailor communications and care settings, and increase patient engage...
Improving Clinical Communications: A Smartphone for Every Nurse
This article explores challenges in ensuring effective clinical communications for patients and orthopedic care teams at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery. The use of smartphone platforms and apps helps nurses spend more time with patients and expedite bedside communic...
Health Information and Technology and Its Impact on Digital Health
This article reviews changes in the health information and technology field in the past two decades. Healthcare technology has continuously changed and evolved from the basic use of a computer for submitting healthcare claims to currently utilizing technology for every level of patient care. Digi...
Data and Prevention’s Place in Digital Health Engagement
This article explores one health care professional's pivot away from acute care and down a career path focused on modifying patient behavior, promoting healthy actions and reducing patient health threats, thereby focusing on empowering patients to avoid high-risk health scenarios, to en...
The Front Line: Thoughtfully Leveraging Technology in a Pandemic
In a challenging environment, health systems are leveraging a variety of information and technology tools to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Physician’s Journey
Fourteen years ago, when I first became a chief medical information officer, I didn’t have a lot of peers—or at least, not many people who shared my title.
Informatics is a Team Sport
This article explores on physician's professional development in health IT from the exploration and development of health system informatics to becoming the CIO of a major university hospital health system.
How Femtech is Advancing Women’s Health
Women’s health innovation holds massive potential to break the barriers contributing to health disparities, but it’s taken a while to reign in more focus on the topic. Here’s why.
Empowering Patients with Access to Health Records through Distributed Applications
Our guest writer shares how blockchain and distributed applications can help provide patients with control of their health records and the ability to grant access to providers at the point of care.