Tripp Jennings, chief value and informatics officer at Palmetto Health, is featured in this episode of The Cerner Podcast. Tripp takes a closer look at addiction, the economic impact and what health care providers can do to prevent this upward trend.

Agnesian Health Care, is an integrated delivery network in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, has offered OpenNotes to its patients for more than a year with great success. Nancy Birschbach, VP and CIO at Agnesian, joined The Cerner Podcast to speak about the opportunities and challenges of opening notes to patients.

On Episode 10 of The Cerner Podcast, Jennifer Covich Bordenick, CEO of eHealth Initiative, answers five questions around the new administration and how it will have an impact on health care immediately and the years to come.

Dr. Brian Jones, User Integration Branch chief with the U.S Defense Health Agency, joined us for episode 9 of The Cerner Podcast. He’s is a practicing family physician and leads Business Process Re-Engineering, Operational Testing and End-User Training for IT systems which support Military Medicine.

Episode 8 of The Cerner Podcast features Col. Margaret Carey, the Commander of the 92nd Medical Group at Fairchild Air Force Base. Her group provides medical care to more than 38,000 active duty service members and beneficiaries.

Brian Ahier is a digital health evangelist at Aetna, as well as a digital health social media influencer who provides his followers with a behind-the-scenes look at key industry trends. Brian came by The Cerner Podcast studio to answer five questions.

Russ Branzell, the president and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Executives, is the featured contributor for episode 6 of The Cerner Podcast. CHIME has a Cybersecurity Center and Program Office, which helps health care organizations deal with cyber threats and better protect patient data and information systems.

Health care delivery is changing and patient-centered health care will depend on the ability to aggregate health data across provider networks through open standards like SMART on FHIR Grahame Grieve principal at Health Intersections in Melbourne, Australia is one of the architect-developers for HL7’s FHIR specifications that enable EHRs to exchange information. He joins us now to share insight on how the ability to aggregate health data will provide a better health care process. In this episode Grahame answers five questions, as well as discusses the new collaboration between HL7 and Google announced today at #HIMSS17.

With all the transformation occurring in the health care industry, IT leaders need to develop strategy that enables its organizations to be more agile, productive and innovative to deliver tangible results. Dr. Tom Selva, chief medical information officer at University of Missouri Health Care, who also serves as the medical director for the Tiger Institute, discusses how to choose the right strategic IT projects in episode 4 of The Cerner Podcast.

Dr. Charles Jaffe, CEO of HL7 and 38-year veteran of the health care IT industry, discusses the biggest barrier in interoperability today and the trends he’s seeing across the industry.