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Virtual care can provide more capacity in near real time for overworked clinicians, says Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare. He advises health systems about finding the right partner to provide that support.
Brian Scarpelli of the Connected Health Initiative discusses advocating for more fundamental shifts in thinking as insurers grow to understand the need for meaningful digital health and telemedicine reimbursement.
The Digital Therapeutic Alliance is one organization working to encourage tech vendors to address health equity throughout their product life cycles, says Jessica Hauflaire, COO of the DTA.
Digital cognitive assessments analyze a patient's voice and responses to better inform cognitive care and reduce clinicians' administrative burden, explains Dr. John Showalter, CPO at Linus Health.
Smartphone tools can help improve health equity by improving care access and empowering patients to collect and transmit their own data via wearables, says Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine.
Virtual nursing and virtual sitting can mitigate labor-related challenges in the acute care setting by allowing the monitoring of multiple patients remotely. Toby Eadelman, CTO at AvaSure, explains.
Mike Brandofino, COO and president of Caregility, explains how artificial intelligence is helping connect platforms to enhance hybrid care in the hospital setting.
Even with a serious provider shortage, virtual care can help connect patients to care in underserved areas, says Dan Ferris, chief marketing officer at Iris Telehealth.
The promise of hospital-at-home in the U.S. and improving clinical informatics in the MENA region, as told by Dr. Anwar Jebran, clinical informatics fellow at UI Health and member of the HIMSS Physician Committee.
Check out some of the major topics of the day and conversations with healthcare IT leaders at the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.
