Connected Health Conference

While face-to-face visits are still preferred by many, 90% of healthcare organizations polled by HIMSS Media say they're using or piloting remote care services to boost care coordination, manage at-risk patients and broaden pop health efforts.

HIMSS Media VP of Content Strategy Stephen Wellman discusses the opportunities Connected Health Conference attendees will have to check out new technologies as well as make impactful connections.

Julian M. Goldman, medical director of biomedical engineering at Partners HealthCare System, addresses the connection between cybersecurity and interoperability.

Mark Kramer, chief engineer for MITRE's Health Technology Center, says patients need to have control of their data that is currently shared provider to provider to promote their own health.

"Mistreated" author Dr. Robert Pearl shares lessons learned – from his years as a surgeon, Stanford professor and as CEO of at Kaiser Permanente – about ways to improve the American healthcare system and how technology can help make it happen.

Journalist James Vlahos, contributor to Wired and other magazines, describes how Dadbot turned an oral history recorded with his terminally ill father into a conversational chatbot offering a sort of "digital afterlife."

Efforts to share clinical decision support (CDS) across domains are underway, says MITRE Lead Clinical Informaticist Sharon Sebastian.

Dr. Aenor Sawyer, chief health innovation officer and director of UCSF's Skeletal Health Service, says clinicians deeply understand pain points and workflow and they care about innovations working because they will be the ones who use the tech. 

Panelists at the Connected Health Conference in Boston spoke about the importance of digital health alliances and learning from countries sometimes ignored in the space. 

Speakers from Fitbit, Johnson & Johnson discussed motivation and behavior change at the Connected Health Conference in Boston.