Accountable Care

At this year's Health 2.0, attendees were particularly interested in providing patients with their health data, say Jamie Skipper and Damon Davis of Elevation Health Consulting.

Digital health companies are evolving from mere point solutions to "flip stack" vendors complete with clinical staff, innovative therapeutics and more, says Catalyst @ Health 2.0 President and co-founder Dr. Indu Subaiya.

The current state of health tech investment and value-based care were among the major talking points at this year's Health 2.0 Conference, says Jonah Comstock, HIMSS Media's new director of content development and editor in chief.

NantHealth VP Mark Jackson was at Health 2.0 looking for new opportunities to bring valuable cloud-based data to physicians at the point of care.

Dr. Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer at HIMSS International, says health tech ideas are coalescing toward a real sea change.

Philippe Wackers, NetApp's EMEA healthcare innovation manager, says his company aims to focus on the citizen's data fabric, which empowers them to stay in control of their data wherever they would like to store it.

AMIA President and CEO Dr. Doug Fridsma discusses new ONC regulations covering full export functions.

SMACK.health President Matthew Holt says big tech platforms and entrepreneurs are looking at the new type of tech in messaging, monitoring and managing systems.

Bill Gillis, CIO, and Dr. Sarika Aggarwal, CMO at Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization, say bringing clinical staff in at the ground level ensured analytics tools were properly deployed for the ACO's success.

Clinicians at Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Florida, are using unsupervised learning algorithms to reduce costs and prevent medical errors, says Dr. Michael Sanders, the hospital's CMIO.