HIMSS19

John Kansky, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, says state and regional HIEs have the deep experience necessary to boost interoperability.

Dr. Vinay Vaidya, chief medical information officer at Phoenix Children's Hospital, describes how the health system is using data to improve patient outomes.

Sue Murphy, chief experience officer at UChicago Medicine, says for hospitals and health systems to best foster a culture where patient experience is valued, they must include one key component: a positive experience for caregivers.

New Zealand has an "interesting way of procurement" that makes it difficult for vendors, says Taranaki District Health Board CIO Steven Parrish.

As more providers move to the cloud, Sentara Healthcare sees big advances in cloud security, according to Dan Bowden, CISO, and Michael Reagin, CIO.

Many hospitals are doing a heroic job with limited resources, but those are often not sustainable without major changes, says Aaron Miri, CIO of UT Health Austin and Dell Medical School. 

Dr. James Hellewell, medical director of Care Transformation Information Systems at Intermountain, says we need to look at other ways to treat patients’ pain without exposing them to high-risk medications.

Health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, however, says the increasing pace of change is encouraging.

Duke University Health System earned HIMSS Analytics' recognition for ambulatory, acute and analytics maturity, says Associate CMIO Genie McPeek Hinz, MD, which she calls the "Triple 7."

Sharp Index founder Janae Sharp says some of the burning health IT questions are whether the industry will be subject to more regulation and how current payment and incentive models will evolve.