CHICAGO—With so much focus on increases in healthcare costs and other problems with medicine today, “it’s worth reminding ourselves of the incredible changes we’ve seen,” said David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD, chief of the section of hospital medicine at The University of Chicago, speaking at the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 14.

CHICAGO—Evidence-based medicine offers power and pitfalls to clinicians, said Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP, professor and chair of the department of health policy & management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, speaking during the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 14.

New legislation would expand coverage of telehealth services to active-duty service members, their departments, retirees and veterans.

Intermountain Healthcare, a network of 22 hospitals and 185 clinics based in Utah and Idaho, is building a new data system that will be able to track the actual cost of every procedure and piece of equipment used in its system, according to a Wall Street Journal article.

CHICAGO—When it comes to clinical decision support, content is more generalizable but management of that content may have an even bigger impact, said David W. Bates, MD, MSc, senior vice president for quality and safety at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, speaking at the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 15.

CHICAGO—Healthcare is among the most information intensive fields and most physicians acknowledge that some decision support would be useful to them, said Edward Shortliffe, MD, PhD, professor of biomedical informatics and senior advisor to the executive vice provost for health solutions at Arizona State University, speaking at the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 14.

Target announced eight finalists of its Simplicity Challenge, the retail chain's search for “great ideas that simplify healthcare and help individuals and families improve their health and well-being,” according to the company’s website.

CHICAGO—Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s dramatic landing of U.S. Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January 2009 was the result of lifelong preparation, he said, speaking at the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 14. His family instilled a love of learning and he realized one should “not stop investing in yourself personally or professionally. That has become a necessity now as the pace of change only accelerates. People can’t get through their entire professional life with one skillset. You must know how to innovate.”