HIMSS20 Digital Coverage

Staff, not vendors, answer calls and has available the patient's EHR information.

Leaders from CommonWell Health Alliance, DirectTrust and Quality Health Network offered updates on their pandemic response during a recent HIMSS20 Digital event.

Gail MacKean, a founding member of IMAGINE Citizens Collaborating for Health, discusses the history of patient- and family-centric care and why it's important to include diverse voices.

First Databank has adjusted its own editorial practices as evidence of COVID-19 drugs and treatment continues to evolve, says Anna Dover, the company's director of product management.

Across a number of different specialties, students – and even practitioners – can put practical technology skills to use and gain an emphasis on collaboration for the rest of their careers.  

Providers can schedule rides for patients, get real-time GPS tracking and message drivers.

The digital interventions have led to improvements in the numbers of preventable emergency department visits, said experts from the New York health system during a HIMSS20 Digital presentation.

AWS’ chief medical officer offers some useful historical perspective, while experts from Cerner, Geisinger and Gyant discuss some of the most promising and potentially transformative use cases for artificial intelligence in healthcare today.

The age of smartphone-enabled virtual care and remote monitoring has arrived, declares Dr. Carl Nohr of the Canadian Medical Association, who previews his upcoming HIMSS webinar exploring "person-enabled" healthcare during the coronavirus crisis and beyond.

Central Logic CEO Angie Franks says with the Arizona Surge Line, health systems and state agencies are using her company's cloud-based technology to aggregate EHR and other data to assess the status of critical inventories and get resources to hospitals most in need.