HIMSS Europe 2020

Eight health tech companies, selected by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, will present their solutions at the event. The technology on display will include innovations in medical device manufacturing, remote medical treatment systems and medical software.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated telehealth development in countries around the world, including Italy. In this session at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Conference, Italian healthcare experts reflect on the progress made in digital health.  

The new triage tool was developed by Sana Digital, the innovation arm of Sana Kliniken AG, in cooperation with the startup Infermedica that brought its already existing version of a Symptom Checker into the cooperation. 

Eye clinic visits have declined sharply in the COVID-19 era of social distancing, threatening the sight of thousands of people with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Remote vision monitoring technology could be critical for supporting this vulnerable population.

Visualisations are receiving considerable attention in the age of COVID-19, but is there more to them than meets the eye?

An interview with Prof. Jan Semenza, lead of the health determinants programme, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, who will be speaking at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event that is due to kick off on 7 September.

With uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 ramifications, healthcare organisations need to establish resilient and agile systems going forward. The facilitation of clinical decision support solutions reduces unwarranted variability. 

The UK’s Royal Marsden Hospital in London has developed an e-form solution using Hyland OnBase that captures and tracks COVID-19 symptom responses from cancer patients remotely, prior to an appointment or treatment visit.

Facing unprecedented challenges, many healthcare organisations and government institutions have turned to Watson Assistant, IBM’s AI-powered virtual agent to assist in responding to the deluge of inquiries from patients, employees, and the public at large.

Professor Sam Shah, founder and director of Faculty of Future Health, says the acceleration and increased adoption of technology during the pandemic is a positive takeout, but the digital divide must be addressed by greater investment.