Mike Miliard
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Maine, United States
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Chartis launches new Center for Burnout Solutions
Working with its DES Health Consulting team, the advisory firm aims to help health system clients tackle clinician burnout and manage the demands on the workforce, improving quality and safety, job retention and provider experience. → Read More
HIMSSCast: Epic leaders on data-driven clinical trial innovation
Better ways to access, aggregate and analyze data are enabling design of more representative clinical trials – and delivery of better care in general, say the company's VP of clinical informatics and its VP of business intelligence and analytics. → Read More
Regenstrief Institute names new president and CEO
Rachel E. Patzer, current director of the Health Services Research Center at the Emory University School of Medicine, will take the reins at the Indianapolis-based biomedical informatics leader. → Read More
HIMSSCast: Getting to better data for better predictive models
A lack of quality clinical data is hindering machine learning models for oncology and other treatments, says Steve Irvine, CEO of integrate.ai, who describes how federated learning approaches can enable secure access to a wider array of datasets. → Read More
UChicago to launch accelerator for AI and data science companies
The program, called Transform, will help tech startups with a focus on machine learning, data engineering, analytics, healthcare, biotech, cybersecurity, IoT and more. → Read More
Regenstrief develops framework to assess patient matching accuracy
Patient identity is a great weakness in healthcare infrastructure, according the physician informaticist who led the algorithm research, which is aimed at boosting interoperability and patient safety. → Read More
HIMSSCast: 2023 forecast - 5G, AI command centers, hybrid work models and more
IDC Health Insights recently published its 2023 Worldwide Healthcare Predictions report. Mutaz Shegewi, the firm's research director, unpacks those findings. → Read More
GE HealthCare taps informatics leader Taha Kass-Hout as new CTO
With its spinoff now complete, it's hired the machine learning expert – who has leadership experience in the private sector, at Amazon and in government at the FDA – to help develop new approaches to analytics and personalized care. → Read More
What do these IT leaders see for healthcare in 2023? 'Flux'
Regulatory difficulties, workforce shortages, financial pressures, evolving patient expectations, an aging population and more will combine to make the next year uniquely challenging, say tech company CEOs, but they're challenges that can be met. → Read More
HIMSSCast: What the midterm elections mean for healthcare in 2023
Tom Leary, Valerie Rogers and David Gray of the HIMSS Government Relations team unpack what the federal and state ballot results will hold for health policy going forward. → Read More
ATA applauds 2-year extension of telehealth flexibilities in Congressional Omnibus
But "hard work continues, as we persist in pressing telehealth permanency and creating a lasting roadblock to the telehealth cliff," the group said. → Read More
Sequoia Project publishes final implementation guide on data usability
The guide is meant to improve data sharing among providers and public health agencies and enable semantic interoperability between sending and receiving systems, helping healthcare organizations incorporate shared data more easily into clinical workflows. → Read More
Epic launches new data exchange hub for vendors
Its new Connection Hub, which opens to app developers on January 9, 2023, offers another instance of API-enabled information exchange and support for open standards and interoperability, the company says. → Read More
Take the 2022 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey
Between now and December 21, stakeholders are encouraged to offer their responses to help with benchmarking, assessing critical needs, tracking progress, educating federal policymakers and more. → Read More
Philips launches AI informatics platform, new imaging tools at RSNA
Its new Advanced Visualization Workspace includes dozens of clinical apps for cardiology, oncology, neurology, radiology and more. → Read More
Hackensack Meridian to migrate Epic workloads to Google Cloud
The move will make it "simpler for our IT and developers, and will allow them to focus more on uncovering creative ways to improve patient care," said the health system's chief digital information officer. → Read More
New healthcare privacy challenges as online data tracking, sharing methods evolve
With security concerns, including a potential breach and a class-action suit, around Meta Pixel and other web tracking tools, health systems should be considering "all the ways PHI may be used, disclosed and accessed," says a former OCR investigator. → Read More
HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum takes place December 5 and 6
The in-person Boston event will gather health system CISOs, security directors, and other IT and infosec leaders to share strategies for risk mitigation in an ever more complex threat landscape. → Read More
University of Maryland consortium launches Institute for Health Computing
The new institute will focus on AI and machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, 5G technologies, precision medicine, telehealth and more. → Read More
Modernizing Medicine to pay $45M to resolve False Claims Act allegations
The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that the EHR vendor accepted and provided "unlawful remuneration in exchange for referrals and by causing its users to report inaccurate information in connection with claims for federal incentive payments." → Read More