Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has 36 years of experience in journalism, with more than 25 years experience in healthcare IT.
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Bill Siwicki
12:36 pm
April 01, 2025
The new telemedicine site offers extremely short wait times and enables providers to see nearly twice as many patients as they would in the same period for in-person visits. And it beats the overhead and infrastructure costs of a new physical location.
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Bill Siwicki
12:59 pm
March 31, 2025
After yet another temporary extension of pandemic-era virtual care flexibilities, a partner at healthcare consulting firm Chartis offers a vision for a sustainable future for these promising care models.
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Bill Siwicki
01:33 pm
March 28, 2025
Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief medical officer at telehealth and remote patient monitoring firm Cadence and former virtual care and digital health chief at Providence, sees a way to create a more sustainable and patient-centered healthcare system.
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Bill Siwicki
11:10 am
March 28, 2025
Tom Kiesau, chief innovation officer and leader, digital and technology transformation, at healthcare consulting firm Chartis, discusses his vision of AI that includes the aging population, clinical and operational AI, AI operating models and much more.
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Bill Siwicki
12:18 pm
March 27, 2025
But barely 1 in 10 are properly investing in the infrastructure necessary to support enterprisewide deployments, according to its new research report. An Accenture health analyst unpacks its findings.
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Bill Siwicki
11:14 am
March 26, 2025
Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.
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Bill Siwicki
12:51 pm
March 25, 2025
The 13-hospital network's CDS system also maintained stable patient experience scores – and data validated that cost reduction was achieved without compromising quality of care.
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Bill Siwicki
11:59 am
March 24, 2025
Sherene Schlegel, RN, chief operating officer and chief nursing officer for virtual care and digital health at the 51-hospital health system, offers a tour of its comprehensive telemedicine offering. She explains the program's evolution and highlights big results.
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Bill Siwicki
12:39 pm
March 21, 2025
Robert Slepin, chief digital officer at SE Health and an emeritus CIO adviser at Epic, describes the key aspects of digital transformation that provider organizations need to understand, the primary technologies involved and how to best organize such a comprehensive effort.
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Bill Siwicki
10:59 am
March 21, 2025
Chris Whelchel, a consultant with expertise in helping health systems with these varied challenges, shares advice that CIOs and other IT leaders at provider organizations can put into place now to help achieve results.
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