January 2017

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Clinical IT

The 2017 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: Third-Place Winning Team—East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

Oct. 2, 2017
Isolated from metropolitan Boston, a federally qualified health center’s health IT-based behavioral health integration program has earned a third-place finish in Healthcare Informatics...
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Population Health Management

The 2017 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: Co-Second-Place Winning Team—Mercy-St. Louis

Oct. 2, 2017
Mercy has made great strides once it turned to a machine learning application that uses advanced analytics to help it identify hidden patterns in its own data.
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Population Health Management

The 2017 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: Co-Second-Place Winning Team—Mercy Health

Oct. 2, 2017
Clinical and IT executive leaders at Mercy Health are now successfully integrating population health analytics into the clinical workflow to significantly facilitate the work ...
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Analytics/AI

The 2017 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: First-Place Winning Team—Allina Health

Oct. 2, 2017
At Allina Health in Minneapolis, senior leaders have leveraged data and IT at a very deep level to rework cardiovascular care processes in order to improve clinical performance...
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Population Health Management

The 2017 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: At the Dawn of a New Era, Winning Teams Show the Way to the Future

Please join us in congratulating the winners of this year’s Innovator Awards Program, who are finding new paths forward to age-old healthcare problems.

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Population Health Management

Editor's Notes: What Links Early Tibetans’ Survival Techniques and the Present Moment in U.S. Healthcare?

Jan. 27, 2017
I was fascinated to read a recent Scientific American article that looked at how early Tibetans figured out how to use fire strategically to improve their chances of survival—...
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Population Health Management

The 2017 Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards: Semifinalists

Inside, please find descriptions of the initiatives of the nine teams whom we have awarded semifinalist status in this year’s program.
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Cybersecurity

Selling Cybersecurity in the Age of Ransomware

Jan. 25, 2017
CISOs and CIOs face significant challenges in their work to strengthen data security, and one major hurdle is that, despite the very real threat of internal and external data ...
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Leadership & Professional Development

Adapting to a Flexible Work Environment

Jan. 20, 2017
The ever-growing millennial workforce cares about soft benefits like working remotely a lot more than you might think.
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Interoperability & HIE

Healthcare’s Latest Interoperability Push

The concern that “real” interoperability in healthcare has yet to be accomplished is not novel. But recently, there have been developments on at least one major front that has...
2017 Trends
Cybersecurity

Five Health IT Trends I’m Looking Forward to in 2017

Dec. 27, 2016
Here are five broad health IT trends that I am looking forward to reporting on in 2017