Digital Health

Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, discusses using data to determine patients at risk and programs that will make a difference.

Flexible physical spaces would be added to allow for full integration of digital technology.

In next three to five years 30-40% of patients will move from hospital to home, says Biofouormis CEO and founder Kuldeep Singh Rajput.

In a collaboration with AT&T, the Cherish device is on when it's plugged in, with no app to download or password needed, says CEO and founder Sumit Nagpal.

Virtual reality device data has the ability to bridge gaps in the EHR, says Gita Barry, president of immersive healthcare at Penumbra.  

Lisa Stephenson, chair of the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee and CNIO at Houston Methodist, says nurses need to move beyond culling data from the EHR to a bigger picture that includes interoperability and health equity.  

Artificial intelligence software is able to extract valuable information from medical records, says Dr. Tim O'Connell, CEO and founder of Emtelligent.  

The current manual process could be made easier by mining data in the EHR for specific research, says Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.  

Action as well as access is needed in medical records to move toward digital health transformation and interoperability, says Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results.

HIMSS validation and robot innovation have given clinicians an additional three hours to spend with patients, say Dr. Wonchul Cha, CMIO and director of the Digital Innovation Center, and Dr. Meong Hi Son, vice director of the Digital Transformation Center.