Digital Health

Medicare, through CPT code development, sets the lead for how digital health gets paid, says Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative.

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

Nurses touch more technology than anyone else, says Tony Black, director of federal healthcare for Kyndryl. He would like to see more networking, training and certification opportunities.

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.

The regional director for Europe at the World Health Organization discusses the WHO partnership with HIMSS to leverage the collective power of their stakeholders to deploy tools to decrease health inequities.

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

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

Clinicians want their EHRs to support them in delivering better patient care, but they're bogged down with documentation, says Sandra Johnson, SVP of client services for CliniComp.  

Educating healthcare professionals on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection helps LGBTQ individuals to feel more inclusive and could lead to better outcomes, says Dana Trampas, senior digital health specialist at HIMSS.

HIMSS' Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model (C-COMM) leverages digital technologies to support meaningful engagement of care recipients, says Natasha Ramontal, digital health strategist for community outcomes and analytics for HIMSS.