Medical Devices
Patient feedback is key, claims Kristina Tägil, founder of AppInMed AB, and healthcare professionals should trust patients to manage their conditions more by engaging with them through available technologies.
(Sponsored) Providers continue to struggle to secure medical devices while working to bring greater access to data and improved treatment.
Dr. Ashish Atreja, chief innovation officer at Mount Sinai and founding chair of NODE.Health, discusses the need for health systems to prove with scientific rigor which new apps and innovations work.
Huimin Xia, CEO of the Stage 7 EMRAM validated Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, explains how IT is a basic driving force for hospital development, and why CEOs need to make it a priority.
We need to look not at what technology can do but, instead, what we should do with robotics to improve life for patients and caregivers, says Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics.
Nicola Dames talks about how her patient experience provided the inspiration needed to transform her Vanilla Blush business into a healthcare provider.
Maria Lensing, vice president of global healthcare solutions at AT&T, says healthcare providers have a unique opportunity to use the data from these billions of devices to improve patient outcomes.
Yun Hong, Global Business Manager, Samsung SDS, says his company's wearable S-Patch ECG monitor collects and automatically uploads data to the cloud, which makes it is easier to use than conventional technology deployed for the same purpose.
Startups should work closely with their target audiences in the product-creation phase when they can ask for advice to help shape the offering before it's released, says Karolina Korth, founder of the Kuala Lumpur Health 2.0 chapter.
John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital, talks about the benefits and challenges with voice technologies amid the growing number of apps and interest from major companies and health systems.