Telehealth

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.

We need to learn more about consumers' behaviors before we maximize the global potential of the human and machine collaboration in healthcare, says Zoltan Lantos, head of Social Innovation Lab at iAsk.

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.

Dr. Johanna Mattson, director of Comprehensive Cancer Center at Helsinki University Hospital, said cancer patients who were more deeply connected to their caregivers lived 6-7 months longer.

Dr. Markus Müschenich, MPH, managing partner at Flying Health, says self-driving cars will free up time for riders who will no longer have to concentrate on driving, providing a business opportunity for digital health companies.

Three ways Microsoft is reimagining healthcare are enabling personalized care, empowering care collaboration and coordination with clinicians, and improving outcomes, says Elena Bonfiglioli, regional business leader of Health and Life Sciences at EMEA at Microsoft.

HIMSS TV goes on a tour of Kotona At Home, a remote delivery care treatment that is a model of the future of digital healthcare.

Philips' Future Health Index report focuses on how digital health technology can improve the clinician and patient experience across the globe, says Paula Cobb, head of Global Strategic Marketing for Healthcare Informatics at the company.

StethoMe CEO and co-founder Wojciech Radomski discusses the use of AI with his company's EC2VC-winning smart stethoscope and why AI is crucial in an era where more and more digital health devices are found in the home.

Thryve's EC2VC-winning solution provides health-related data from smartphones and other digital devices, says CEO and co-founder Friedrich Lämmel.