Digital Health

<p>The 2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition shows how major industry issues are being tackled, looks at who's done it before and how people can learn from each other, and lets them hear from experts, says Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS.</p>

There must be a balance between giving clinicians solutions-based technology and giving them something else to learn.

Hospitals become more humane environments as room alarms and beeps are replaced by interoperable apps carried by nurses.

Advice for healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other security leaders on how best to protect their organizations from the vulnerabilities that lie within web apps, from Johannes Ullrich, dean of research at the SANS Technology Institute.

<p>Sumit Nagpal, CEO of Cherish Health, said technology that can track people's movements inside the home has preventive benefits to move the dial on healthcare costs.<br />  </p>

<p>Change management barriers include reimagining how health systems communicate with physicians and nursing staff, say Cleveland Clinic ACO's Dr. Jessica Hohman and Cleveland Clinic Florida's Dr. Richard Rothman, who will be speaking at HIMSS24.<br />  </p>

Tying the virtual connections together at Houston Methodist is an EHR-integrated digital whiteboard, says Ginny Torno, who will speak at HIMSS24.

<p>The healthcare modeling creates coherence as it represents the holistic view of the person, rather than the partial view of the patient, says Interoperability Institute's Jim St. Clair and the VA's Thomas Osborne and Dr. Paul Tibbits, who will be speaking at HIMSS24.<br />  </p>

<p>In a preview of his HIMSS24 presentation, Dr. Jonathan Chen, assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, said a patient's care quality hinges on whether medical teams can distinguish between fact and fiction.<br />  </p>

<p>Change management helped Providence leverage AI for clinical notes, an inbox management system and other products, says Dr. Eve Cunningham, chief of virtual care and digital health at Providence.</p> <p> </p>