The NFL draft is getting underway, and the league has made a draft choice of its own: It has called on eClinicalWorks to create a mobile electronic health record that will be used by team caregivers to provide real-time access to player videos and information on how to diagnose and treat sports injuries.

David Dyer, VP of IT services/planning and CIO of Somerset Medical Center - a HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 hospital - describes how his organization overcame the challenges and successfully implemented its EHR system.

Frank DiSanzo, VP and CIO of St. Peter's University Health System, a member of the Jersey Health Connect health information exchange, talks about the HIE's challenges and goals.

Allen Kriete, Vice President of Healthcare Services at talent management firm TEKsystems, and Sanja Licina, Ph.D., and Senior Director of Talent Intelligence and Consulting at CareerBuilder, talk about the challenges or attracting and retaining health care IT staff.

Texas Health Resources’ VP and CMIO Ferdinand T. Velasco, MD, talks about innovative ways to engage physicians and other stakeholder in change management and process improvement.

Kim Lamb, Executive Director of the Oregon Health Network, outlines the best IT practices for health care organizations.

Nancy Staggers, RN, a professor of informatics at the University of Maryland, talks about the top health care I.T. usability myths.

James Gaston, Senior Director, Clinical and Business Intelligence, at HIMSS Analytics, discusses the reasons carriers are investing in business analytics.

Jason Burke, founding director and chief strategist at SAS's Center for Health Analytics & Insights, discusses how advanced analytics hold the promise to vastly improve health care.

RelayHealth's Vice President of Business Analytics, Jason Williams, maintains the sharing of financial risk among stakeholders is steeped in prerequisite advancements in analytic information. Much of the transparency required in the future will be driven by comparative analysis. Technology solutions and the connection of billions of provider, pharmacy, patient, and payer transactions are the foundation for the global view needed to drive new paradigms of care delivery and payment models.

Casey Graves from Deloitte Consulting says during an interview at AHIP 2012 that those big, bad cost problems the industry is facing is resulting in new levels of collaboration between payers and providers, and that collaboration is being fueled in large part by analytics.

Carl Ascenzo, vice president of global health solutions at Virtusa, talks about the push to establish a new level of intimacy--his word--with patients during a sit-down at AHIP 2012 in Salt Lake City.

Chinese Community Health Plan has embarked on a big-time data crunching initiative to integrate data feeds for predictive modeling and a new approach to care management. Larry Loo, the plan's director of business development and operations, explains the technological building blocks the plan has put in place during an interview at AHIP 2012 in Salt Lake City.

Sumeet Seth, the vice president of information technology at Chartered Health Plan, discusses the competitive edge the plan gets from its granular analytics program, and hits on "mandate" analytics and workforce issues during an interview at AHIP 2102.

Jim Costanzo from Ernst & Young talks about how far the health care industry still has to go before data governance and MDM are mature during a conversation at AHIP 2012 in Salt Lake City.

Kevin Arner, CEO of PaySpan, says market shifts are forcing providers and payers to have more cordial "conversations" about payments, during an interview at AHIP 2012.

Dr. Yael Harris, Director of the Office of Health Information Technology and Quality at the Health Resources and Services Administration, talks about how IT can be used to improve the quality of patient health.

Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, talks about the recent trends in protecting patient privacy.

Dr. John Riggs, Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems at the Harris County Hospital Districts, talks about the challenges of integrating imaging applications into EHRs.