Healthcare IT industry insiders as well as our roving reporters deliver news and views from the show floor on Day 1 of the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.

CHICAGO – Telehealth adoption continues to increase, boosted in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, which put a spotlight on remote care technologies. But most of the focus this far has been on outpatient telehealth. As Stanford Health Care can attest, inpatient telehealth can also be a critical tool, and there’s an impetus to streamline technology […]

CHICAGO – Hospitals have taken a financial hit from continued COVID-19 headwinds, especially due to labor shortages.

At the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, our reporters deliver news and insightful interviews with healthcare IT industry leaders.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization introduced a significant amount of confusion into the healthcare industry. The decision, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade and left it up to states to determine their reproductive health policies, left open the possibility of operational impacts to various stakeholders.

CHICAGO – About half of the population in the country live in areas that have a lack of access to behavioral healthcare, said Taft Parsons III, vice president and chief psychiatric officer, CVS Health. Dr. Zenobia Brown agreed that access for behavior and mental health services has been an issue before the pandemic.

CHICAGO – Interoperability is frequently touted as a means of ensuring the exchange of important health information between healthcare entities, but it turns out that achieving this long sought-after goal may also be a means of advancing health equity, which has been an ongoing focus of the current administration.