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By HIMSS TV | 05:19 pm | April 19, 2019
By tracking her daughter's 26 symptoms in a complete patient story over time, Kristina Sheridan, Center for Veterans Enterprise Transformation department head at MITRE, says she gave doctors vital information for successful treatment.
By HIMSS TV | 10:42 am | April 19, 2019
Intermountain Director of Innovation Todd Dunn says conference rooms, conference calls and cubes hinder the ability to gain the empathic stance necessary for harnessing the world's knowledge to solve problems.
By HIMSS TV | 12:59 pm | April 18, 2019
At MEDinIsrael 2019, Medivizor CEO Tal Givoly explains why his startup distills cutting-edge medical science to patients.
By HIMSS TV | 01:24 pm | April 17, 2019
The industry has learned a lot during the last decade, and now we’re ready to use those lessons learned to move in new directions, says Subha Airan-Javia, associate professor at Penn Medicine. 
By HIMSS TV | 12:48 pm | April 15, 2019
Project HEAL CEO and co-founder Kristina Saffran says the organization provides online support groups and mentors to help those with eating disorders overcome them to improve quality of life.
By HIMSS TV | 09:00 am | April 15, 2019
Jen Horonjeff, founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative, talks about connecting innovators directly with patients to design effective products.
By HIMSS TV | 11:35 am | April 12, 2019
Mount Sinai Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Ashish Atreja explains how the system's patient design group flipped the metrics of quality completely around to reset humanity in patients' lives.
By HIMSS TV | 09:49 am | April 05, 2019
HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf says talks about the shift from deploying healthcare technology to the use of the information to make better decisions in care.
By Laura Lovett | 03:23 pm | April 01, 2019
A new meta-analysis published in JMIR revealed that while fitness apps modestly increase physical activity, the average observed step count between app users and nonusers did not reach statistical significance.
By HIMSS TV | 09:55 am | March 27, 2019
Telehealth technology now enables virtual visits with entire care teams, which isn’t possible when clinicians use phones, says David McSwain, interim CMIO at Medical University of South Carolina.