BOSTON—Three rising stars in healthcare shared their experiences on how to transform the industry through innovation at the AMDIS Fall Symposium.

ORLANDO—“We spend a lot of money on care that is preventable and avoidable,” said Peter Preziosi, PhD, RN, healthcare innovation strategist at Verizon, speaking on mobile health trends at the Nursing Informatics Symposium at the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference.

ORLANDO—“If people don’t trust an organization, that organization won’t be able to deliver the care they expect,” said John Houston, vice president of privacy and information security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, speaking at the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference.

ORLANDO—Starting Oct. 1, acute care hospitals with the highest number of acquired infections will see their Medicare payments reduced by 1 percent. With this reality looming, leaders at Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital shared their efforts to harness data analytics and workflow tools to more accurately identify and report on safety and quality incidents at the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference.