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A wearable asthma tool created by CareEvolution helps patients self- manage their condition and the data that's gathered gives alerts when there is a change in baseline conditions, says Chief Transformation Officer Dr. Bronwyn Harris.
The quality of payers' digital experiences is lagging behind those of finance and property and casualty insurance, finds J.D. Power.
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Cherish Health's intelligent radar-based sensor platform detects emergencies so that seniors do not have to download an app, remember to wear things, or press a button, says CEO Sumit Nagpal.
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Jong-Soo Choi, CTO at South Korea's Samsung Medical Center and 2025 HIMSS Changemaker Awardee, says his health system achieved the HIMSS maturity model goal by focusing on improving care quality and patient engagement, even while dealing with challenges such as the cloud and data.
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Artificial intelligence is picking up where behavioral health via telehealth left off during the COVID-19 pandemic in mitigating staffing shortages by handling administrative tasks, medication management and even doing triage to assess the patient, says Dr. Colin Banas, DrFirst's chief medical officer.
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Ambient listening allows for a natural conversation with a patient and puts the right information into the medical record and without the burden of chart documentation, says Changemaker Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, program director of nursing informatics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Members are frustrated by not finding accurate information online, by being unable to get a live agent or by lack of preventative care options, says Rita Sharma, chief product officer at Pager Health.
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Healthcare problems are not on the medical side, but in the healthcare delivery system, says HIMSS Changemaker award recipient Elizabeth Regan, a professor at the University of South Carolina who teaches informatics.
Cognixion uses non-invasive sensors to monitor brain waves to create apps for those with traumatic brain injury, stroke or ALS, says CEO and cofounder Andreas Forsland.
Initiative will eliminate up to 25% of all reauthorizations, or 10% of overall prior authorizations, PBM says.