Digital Health

International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association (IVRHA) executive director and founder Bob Fine talks about VR use in the health field, the evolution of medical XR and the 7th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium.

To highlight their HIMSS23 session, Margie Zuk and Penny Chase of MITRE share updates to the Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook.  

Fresenius Medical Care SVP and global chief medical information officer Dr. Shelly Nash will lead a panel at HIMSS23 on the ways the right training and technology can help end-stage kidney disease patients perform dialysis at home.

In a preview of their HIMSS23 discussion of a coalition aimed at curing healthcare disparities in the city, Russ Hinz of Advocate Health, Stephanie Chia of University of Chicago Medicine and Susan Tolin from Chartis talk about their experiences and the results.

Joe Drygas, VP of healthcare for AT&T Business, and Randy Bush, principal at Deloitte Consulting, will join HIMSS23 to talk about advanced connectivity and healthcare.

Scripps Health's Tracy Chu previews her HIMSS23 presentation, "Automation Improves Digital Education App Performance," about ways automation has helped patients and clinician workflows.

NLP technology can assist with social determinants of health data, according to Emily Kwan, health equity senior programmer analyst at NorthShore University HealthSystem, in this preview of her HIMSS23 session.  

Florence Hudson, executive director of Columbia University's Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, previews her HIMSS23 look at the new IoT specification meant to help medical devices communicate safely and securely.

Epic's Matt Doyle, R&D Team Lead & Software Development Team Leader for Interoperability, says the company's next move as a QHIN is to show the benefit of TEFCA to providers and simplify connectivity.

Health systems are required to retain clinical, HR and financial data, which all have differing retention lengths, says Tower Health VP and Chief Applications Officer Sidney Dixon during a preview of his HIMSS23 session.