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Central Georgia Health Network VP Jodi Ingram and CIO Gabriel Orthous say speaking both the payers’ and the providers’ languages is key to getting them to trust each other.

Data from apps, devices and digital therapeutics are enabling personal health dashboards that help track overall wellness and managing chronic conditions, says HIMSS Personal Connected Health Alliance Director of Thought Advisory John Sharp. 

IT is funneling various data sources such as EHRs and claims data into a treasure trove researchers can analyze, says Duke University Health System Chief Analytics Officer Stephen Blackwelder.

Avanti iHealth Partner Dr. Mark Roche recounts how healthcare interoperability has progressed from the early days, when there were multiple competing standards and various maturity levels.

Program Executive Officer Stacy Cummings says the DoD is deploying a network built with cybersecurity in mind, using a risk management framework and undergoing regular white hat assessments.

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.

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. 

Digitizing the healthcare system changed what can go wrong from a legal compliance perspective by an order of magnitude, according to Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine.

Stacy Cummings, program executive officer at Defense Healthcare Management Systems, and the DHA's Major General Lee Payne and Pat Flanders discuss the challenges of implementing an enterprise EHR.   

11Health founder and CEO Michael Seres discusses how his company puts intelligence and sensors into medical bags attached to patients living with long-term conditions to remotely monitor those patients.