Connected Health
Patients are looking for affordable access in the right place and at the right time, says Sara Vaezy, chief digital strategy officer at Providence St. Joseph Health.
Conversa Health provides a population health management platform that delivers better patient experience while alleviating provider burnout, says President and Chief Strategy Officer Murray Brozinsky.
Members of the HIMSS Media editorial team discuss the top takeways from the Connected Health Conference in Boston, including the changing role of healthcare payers, the challenges of behavior change, worrying digital health adoption stats and more.
The patient is "the most underutilized resource in healthcare" and should be in the driver's seat of their own care, claim the Society for Participatory Medicine's Joseph Ternullo and Eric Bersh.
HealthBeacon decided to go deep on one important medication adherence use case: self-administered injectables, says CEO Jim Joyce.
Involving patients early in the design and development process can make for a better product and more successful launch, says Roxie Mooney, CEO and commercial strategist at Legacy DNA.
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.