Patient Engagement

Konstantin Hyppönen, chief architect at Kanta Services in Finland, discusses how better tools can enable patients to manage their own healthcare from home.

James Hawkins, director of strategy at NHS Digital, discusses how the NHS.UK platform provides users with an app that allows them to access their own records, book appointments, order prescriptions and do basic triage.

HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling discusses the future of healthcare as well as the key issues, system applications and data outcomes the Health 2.0 Annual Conference brings to the forefront.

Augmented reality and virtual reality can play an "amazing" role in surgery, helping surgeons, patients and residents, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

For hospitals and health systems to best foster a culture where patient experience is valued, they must include one key component: a positive experience for caregivers, says Sue Murphy, chief experience officer at UChicago Medicine.

Machines and humans work best together, says Etsimo CEO Thomas Grandell, whose platform can help increase patient empathy by freeing up doctors' time, while ensuring patients stay healthier longer.

Many hospitals are doing a heroic job with limited resources, but those are often not sustainable without major changes, says Aaron Miri, CIO of UT Health Austin and Dell Medical School.

We need to look at other ways to treat patients' pain without exposing them to high-risk medications, says Dr. James Hellewell, medical director of Care Transformation Information Systems at Intermountain.

Jan E. Larsson, SVP at Cambio Healthcare Systems, says the maturity of the Nordic healthcare model means that the time is ripe to focus on predictive care, while lowering the costs to patients and improving efficiency for providers.

GE Healthcare's new Edison platform will improve workflow, clinical insight and patient satisfaction, claims Karley Yoder, senior director of product, Edison AI.