Digital Health

<p>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.</p> <p> </p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p> <p> </p>

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<p>One health record connects a fragmented health system where disparities are an issue, says Mitchell Thornbrugh, CIO of the Indian Health Service.</p>

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<p>IT, telehealth, clinical decision support, wellness tools and diagnostics all fall into the same category, says Jessica Hauflaire, COO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Digital therapeutics consist of software as a direct intervention to treat, manage or prevent medical conditions.</p>

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Bronwyn Spira is CEO and cofounder of Force Therapeutics, a digital care management platform for musculoskeletal conditions.

<p>Having more digital information does not solve the core problem of matching patients to their correct records, says Gregg Church, president of 4medica.</p> <p> </p>