Bringing APIs into healthcare has been no small task and this Industry Perspectives guest should know. Don Rucker, MD, is currently the chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, but his former role as the National Coordinator National Coordinator for Health Information Technology gave him insight into how healthcare organizations can better collaborate and leverage resources to improve API adoption ..read more

With persistent health data usability challenges across the industry, The Sequoia Project's Data Usability Taking Root Initiative is looking to drive interoperability through existing data standards. Holly Miller, MD, chief medical officer at MedAllies, a health IT network participating in the initiative, discusses the main data usability issues impacting providers and how the cross-industry community of practice is working to address them ..read more

CMS produced a new tool to help hospitals comply with price transparency rules, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an artificial intelligence tool that assesses patients' risk for sepsis, and more on today's episode ..read more

How can Google make healthcare information more useful and accessible? What is the best role for the cloud in healthcare data management? Aashima Gupta, Global Director of Healthcare at Google, and Kalyan Pamarthy, Group Project Manager for Generative AI and Search at Google, address these questions and share their thoughts on the potential for cloud innovation in a healthcare context ..read more

With cyberattacks on the rise--including the advent of the largest cyber event in American healthcare history, the Change Healthcare event--healthcare leaders are scrambling to refortify their health IT security protocols. Matt DeFrain, managing director of MorganFranklin Cyber, and Tamara Nolan, senior director of Cyber & Operational Resilience at MorganFranklin Cyber, share their insights on how healthcare organizations can better prepare for inevitable cyberattacks ..read more

Diabetes management tools attract a lot of physician and patient attention, but some do not live up to their promises. Epic is adding ambient intelligence to its EHRs. Medicaid disenrollments rocket past HHS projections. A proposal in the Senate would offer financial relief to providers affected by cybersecurity crises ..read more

In this episode, we talk to Kayla Monfort, the co-director of Activate Allen County, a public health initiative in Ohio that created a database to fuel its health improvement efforts. Monfort discusses how to use data for public health and engage local partners to pool community health data ..read more

Is healthcare technology helping or hurting provider burnout? And what can healthcare systems do to offer healthcare professionals more opportunities for work-life balance? These are the million-dollar--or more--questions that healthcare leaders face as they work with a shrinking pool of providers and heavy administrative burdens. Michelle Flemmings, MD, industry executive and market development director for healthcare in North America’s cloud infrastructure at Oracle Health, addresses these questions and shares what brings her hope amid these challenges.   For more on navigating provider ..read more

A cyberattack at Change Healthcare has crippled large segments of the healthcare industry. Also, a new AI app might detect a certain pediatric ear infection better than humans ..read more

Pharmacy benefit managers and payers have a lot of influence over prescription drug affordability, but does their traditional working model actually benefit health plan members? Alison Lum, vice president of pharmacy services at Blue Shield of California, shares what needs to change about the PBM-payer relationship to improve prescription drug costs and access to care ..read more