social determinants

The startup's data platform aims to help clients like providers and payers understand how social factors are impacting patient health.

The remote care tools are also helping tackle problems of loneliness with virtual group programs. 

HIMSS Senior Director of Federal and State Affairs Jeff Coughlin shares his thoughts on information-blocking, interoperability, social determinants and recently proposed rules from CMS and ONC.

The former national coordinator and professor at Dell Medical School says consumers need to feel more like a person and less like a patient so the trend is to put all of a patient's data in one place so they can access it via smartphone.

Denise Hines, Chief Americas Officer at HIMSS, says health IT will only succeed if patients are kept at the center of care and shares what's next in patient empathy and experience.

University of Colorado Assistant Professor Mustafa Ozkaynak argues that getting insights about a patient's environment and lifestyle is just as critical as understanding genomic data.