Quality and Safety

The health apps landscape is growing beyond just wellness management, says Liz Ashall-Payne, co-founder and CEO of ORCHA.

Augmented reality and virtual reality can play an "amazing" role in surgery, helping surgeons, patients and residents, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Rural hospitals are particularly challenged in meeting the standards, with non meeting the volume standard for five of eight procedures.

True value-based care requires a holistic view of the patient that can only be achieved with robust data, an expert says.

Two benefits of using digital tools to help improve people's mental well-being are anonymity and remote access, says Victoria Betton, mHabitat founder and director and HIMSS UK Advisory Council member.

Petteri Kivimäki, CTO for Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions, details how Finland and Estonia use X-Road to enable the secure exchange of data, with opportunities to expand to the rest of Europe.

Dr. Abayomi Jaye channeled his own feelings of loss into positive action to help Nigeria's underserved patients, says the founder of Cecy Health Consult.

When working within a publicly funded healthcare system, training, education and access to technology for patients are imperative, says Mikko Vasama, general manager of Health Systems Nordics at Philips.

Over 90% of hospitals in Korea use an e-health system that tracks the patient journey; now the aim is to develop systems outside medical institutions, says Taegyun Song, director of Korea Health Industry Development Institute.

Henning Schneider, CIO of Asklepios Healthcare Group, discusses learning from others about improving interoperability and data exchange.