HIMSS20 Digital Coverage

Patients want access to everything, according to focus groups interviewed by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

CAREMINDr President and CEO Harry Soza discusses how remote monitoring is changing chronic care management.

A drop in blood pressure can be hard to predict using standard clinical measurements such as heart rate or cardiac output – but experts say a new AI tool could give clinicians a valuable 15-minute lead time.

CEO Dave Lareau explains how Medicomp made early coronavirus-specific changes to its database and AI engine as the pandemic took hold in February – and has continued to innovate since then.

Two recent programs deploying telemedicine in Zimbabwe and Ghana highlight common hurdles programs that deliver these technologies to underserved areas will likely encounter.  

Learning from the pandemic quickly, in order to take the digital health standard forward globally, was the sentiment voiced by leading stakeholders in a recent World Health Assembly virtual panel hosted by HIMSS.

Voice and health AI technology company Orbita developed software to help nurses respond more efficiently to patients who need assistance while in care.

Amwell President and CEO Dr. Roy Schoenberg describes how the public health crisis is impacting his telehealth company and is rewriting the expectations for virtual care.

The bots are integrated with the EHR and can tell patients when they should expect the doctor and what labs have been ordered.  

Better interoperability between devices could result in the "silent ICU" in which alarms are not constantly going off by a patient's bed.