Patient Engagement
The next goal on the UAE's pioneering digital health journey is to promote prevention and happiness by engaging patients with the HIE, explains Dr Mohammad Al Redha, director of health informatics and smart health at the Dubai Health Authority.
Virtual reality made significant improvements in patient experiences. It has turned resistors at Hoag Hospital into champions, says Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Louis.
HIMSS Davies Award winner Texas Children's Hospital’s assistant VPs Tarra Kerr and Ashok Kurian discuss their patient-centered coordinated care, enabled by a partnership between quality and safety departments, clinical operations and IT systems.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs broke records by achieving HIMSS stage 7 in four models concurrently. Raed Alhamze explores the impact on patient outcomes.
Anjali Kataria, Mytonomy CEO and cofounder, says that content streaming and AI can empower patients at home and help hospitals and health systems improve their patient education materials as they reduce the time nurses spend answering questions.
OutCare Health provides resources, support, education and research studies to support and improve the LGBTQ+ community's care experience. Dr. Dustin Nowaskie, the company's founder and president, explains.
According to the Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport's Abigail Norville, there is a need to foster and train our existing healthcare workforce to operate in new ways as healthcare evolves.
Dr. Alan Spiro, president and CMO of Laguna Health explained how research done in conjunction with NorthShore University Health System showed that using telehealth to address "life context factors" can improve access and reduce costs.
Cybersecurity challenges are often "really a matter of people taking it as seriously as we do," says Zina Kind, IT director at The Admiral at the Lake, which provides all levels of senior living, from independent to dementia care.
According to E.U. project Label2Enable's Petra Hoogendoorn, there is demand from both patients and doctors for centrally filtered and recommended healthcare apps.
