Don't miss education sessions at HIMSS18

From artificial intelligence to simulation training, there are many sessions about making the most of your EHR.

Telemedicine and telehealth implementation strategies, case studies, regulatory issues and more will be covered.

A look at the highlights of what will be among the hottest topics at this year’s health IT conference in Las Vegas. 
 

A collection of population health management highlights on this year's health IT conference agenda.

The Olympic Healthcare Interoperability Initiative hopes to offer a seamless data exchange among 200 countries.

A new approach to preventing falls with telehealth and predictive analytics technologies has implication for other applications of population health data.

Agency leader will discuss delivering coordinated care in the 21st century and will be joined by Vice Admiral Raquel Bono.

Speakers at the daylong preconference event will address the roles nurses play in public health, and documentation challenges.

Billing process causes so much confusion that patients say they aren’t 100 percent sure what they owe until the collections agencies call. Providers and payers must band together on smarter benefit design.

KP Colorado has managed to resolve nearly two-thirds of patient issues via chat.

Navigating the massive Western New York campus was a burden to patients, but its CIO tailored a mapping system to improve their experience.

The trickiest part is getting people to keep using the devices, even six months is a challenge.

The organizations use voice recognition and artificial intelligence to build interactive reports that include more elements than simply what a clinician adds, such as images, charts and graphs.

HIMSS18 presenters explain how MU Health Care instituted a multi-pronged approach to boost physician satisfaction by 10% and offer feedback valuable to planning.

Amanda Greene will address conference-goers at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas on what it’s like to manage chronic illness and making sure your doctors have the right information.

Hospital exec says help from everyone within an organization is needed to hit that milestone.

Brett Swenson, MD, deployed a chatbot to improve engagement from EHRs to triage and found real success in reaching patients with information about flu shots.

The automated model to predict risk of unplanned ICU transfers and cardiopulmonary arrests outperforms non-automated models, leading to improved care and patient safety.

Thomas Jefferson chief Stephen Klasko and athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush believe a healthcare system overhaul is not only necessary, but possible and will present their ideas at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas.

TransUnion Healthcare’s Revenue Cycle leader Jonathan Wiik will shed light on evolving healthcare payment landscape where patients now represent a third of billing revenue.

HIMSS18 presenters explain how Hackensack Meridian matches precision payment to precision medicine with an innovative approach to create ‘lanes of care’ that determine efficacy in terms of both cost and outcomes.

With all the back and forth in Washington, D.C., lawmakers are not passing some important pieces of legislation concerning Medicare reimbursement for telehealth, Roy Schoenberg says.

Threat detection response is more reactive than proactive but MITRE engineer explains how sharing threats within a trusted environment can bolster security programs.

Hospitals can improve the overall process by getting the right people involved, institutions flexibility of data capture, and create a feedback loop.

But building the new model of care plans is a difficult task, Mass General geriatrician Terry O’Malley says.

A consolidated architecture that combines patient EHR data with medication information could enable more informative and actionable medication alert systems, Charlie Hart says.

The Hospital for Special Surgery began working last year to centralize the call center management and to move messages from pagers to a secure cell phone.

Thinking strategically about people and process that include adaptive workflows with strong informatics leadership are key to success.

Shawnee Mission Medical Center has different EHRs in separate care settings and that means informaticists have to accommodate varying workflows so they created a flexible system to manage it.

While consumerism and retail concepts like customer satisfaction are nothing new to other industries, healthcare has some catching up to do.

The agency has revamped its healthcare program through text messaging, the Anywhere to Anywhere telemedicine program and other health programs over the last year.

This session will focus on lessons learned in getting physician buy-in amidst rampant change fatigue.

The best population health management program is built on data and supported by robust operations that can scale up to meet the organization’s needs.