Strategic Planning

Connected care allows patients to access care where they are through as mobile devices, telehealth visits, mobile scheduling and more, says Jesus Diaz, director, nursing informatics at Memorial Healthcare System.  

Mount Sinai Health System started using predictive AI for clinical care and has since expanded to streamline care to make it easier for patients, says CMIO Dr. Bruce Darrow.

The current hurricane season will require providers, manufacturers and distributors to make adequate supply chain preparations.

In traditional FFS, clinicians see one patient, but in value-based care, the provider is responsible for a population of patients and needs to know where else they have received care, which brings in the necessity for interoperability, says Dr. Harm Scherpbier, HealthShare Exchange CMIO.  

Israel has been in the game longer because it became fully electronic in the mid-90s, says Ran Balicer, HIMSS board of directors member.  

AI is not meant to replace doctors, but offers augmented intelligence to make physicians more successful, more accurate and faster, says Mount Sinai's CMIO Dr. Bruce Darrow.  

Digital therapeutics can engage patients differently through wearables and telemetry and collect data, which is valuable to pharmaceutical R&D and patient engagement, says Aaron Gani, founder and CEO of RealizedCare.  

Change is needed on Capitol Hill, which is why the Digital Therapeutics Alliance summit was held in D.C., says Andy Molnar, president of the group.  

One of the key takeaways from the Change incident is the industry is not prepared for the type of disruption this attack perpetrated, says Dave Bailey, VP, Consulting Services at Clearwater Security.

Dr. Dennis Truong, regional telemedicine/mobility director at Kaiser Permanente, discusses how digital therapeutics bridges the gap of patient access to care.