Women in Health IT

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Pharma companies are entering the “drug and digital” era, where they need to provide digital solutions to deliver more value to patients, says veteran healthcare leader and Health Innovation Strategies CEO Naomi Fried.

Long-term patient Swapna Kakani says that patient experience is changing slowly, but there are little things hospitals can do to better cater to consumers.

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.

Cleveland Clinic Executive Chief Nursing Officer K. Kelly Hancock says a business case is emerging from empathy as unlocking engagement to influence patients and clinicians can boost the bottom line.

Ana Prado, CMIO at Hospital de Cascais in Portugal, details how having reached EMRAM Stage 7, the hospital’s work continues in an effort to improve even more clinical outcomes and patient care.

Providence St. Joseph Health Director Karen Appelbaum discusses how technology is serving as an extension of the way to know patients and care for them.

b.well Connected Health founder and CEO Kristen Valdes shares how her company is bringing disparate health data – clinical, financial, biometric, genomic, social determinant and more – into one accessible place.

Carrie Davis, director of patient experience at the Hanger Clinic, shares her own patient experience and how it helps guide her work of implementing more compassionate and human-centric care.

Dr. Silvia Perez-Protto, medical director of End of Life Center at the Cleveland Clinic, says providers need to understand and document patients' values and wishes if they are to effectively collaborate with them on their journey.