Videos

Former SCCT president Eric Williamson, MD, FSCCT, vice chair for radiology informatics and AI at Mayo Clinic, presented the session one staffing challenges and provided insights into recruitment and retention strategies for physicians and technologists in the field. #SCCT #SCCT23 #SCCT2023 #cardiovascularbusiness

How to address staffing shortages in cardiac CT

Eric Williamson, MD, a former SCCT president, examined recruitment and retention strategies for physicians and technologists in the field of cardiac CT. 

October 12, 2023
Video of Kateita Hasanovic, RN, senior director, clinical EHR applications at Baptist Health, Jacksonville, Florida, explains how her large health system consolidated its Epic EHR and patient medication history.

How medication reconciliation data consolidation in the EHR enables better patient care

Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida, consolidated patient medication history from numerous facilities into one location in its Epic EHR to improve patient safety and allow data analytics.

October 10, 2023
Video of Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explaining how the Best in KLAS rates for health informatics vendors are created.

How are the best in KLAS Health IT vendor rankings created?

KLAS conducts annual assessments of all types of healthcare information systems such as PACS, EMRs and cardiovascular information systems and ranks them. Bradley Hunter, the vice president for value-based care and core solutions at KLAS Research, explains the process of ranking.
 

October 4, 2023
Kumar Aditya, director, information technology, Atlantic Health System, explains how the system automated more than 60% of its radiology prior authorization workflow.

How Atlantic Health automated its radiology prior authorization workflow

Director of IT Kumar Aditya explains how the New Jersey hospital system automated more than 60% of its radiology prior authorization workflow.

October 3, 2023
Video of how capital investments firms are partnering with hospitals.

How health systems and venture capital firms can collaborate to improve care delivery

The University of Rochester is part of a growing trend where academic medical centers are partnering with venture capital firms to implement new technologies that improve patient care. 

September 28, 2023
Video of Natalie Edgworth at Providence Health System explaining how AI is used to optimizing staffing schedules. #HIMSS

AI takes on hospital staffing to help battle burnout

Specialists with Providence Health System developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm to help make staffing schedules more flexible and predict patient volumes.

September 25, 2023
Esteban Rubens, Oracle cloud field chief technology officer for healthcare, explains cloud’s role in enterprise imaging and healthcare IT and the movement away from on-premise data storage.

More and more hospitals are using the cloud for medical image storage

Cloud data storage is growing in medical imaging as a way of simplifying workflows and providing relief to health IT teams, Esteban Rubens explained in an interview. 

September 22, 2023
Ben Gonzales explains how telehealth aids the Geisinger behavior health program. #HIMSS #telemedicine #telehealth

Telehealth helps health system manage dramatic rise in patient referrals

As wave after wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit one Pennsylvania health system, it responded by investing heavily in telehealth technology. 

September 14, 2023

Around the web

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, one of the leading voices behind efforts to create a new Board of Cardiovascular Medicine, spoke with Cardiovascular Business about where things stand today.

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

U.S. physicians often receive payments from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. New research in JAMA found a connection between receiving such payments and using specific devices—should the industry be concerned? 

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