Patient Engagement

Dr. Jack Resneck, Jr., chair of the board of trustees at the American Medical Association, discusses the importance of app validation and the need to implement the physician's voice at the ground floor of innovation.

Sam Hanna, professor and associate dean at American University, says that while clinicians need to be able to provide patients with data when they need it, patients need to provide data back to the clinicians.

Alan Gilbert, CEO of digital therapeutic company BeCare Link, discusses how artificial intelligence is being used to predict disease progression for multiple sclerosis patients - helping improve care, lower costs and decrease hospitalizations.

EverlyWell is helping transform the process of getting laboratory tests, using existing consumer technology to expand and improve access, affordability and convenience, says founder and CEO Julia Cheek.

Emma Cartmell, founding partner of Cartmell Ventures, describes how the new interoperability rules will lead to big changes in consumer digital health and shares her investment philosophy.

Swift Medical is combining visualization tech with wound care, offering technology that enables clinicians to wave a cellphone around a wound and assess it, says CEO Carlo Perez.

Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance's Kate Birch says using genomics to pick the right test for patients can result in getting five times the diagnoses at half the cost.

Bryce Olson, healthcare strategist at Intel, shares how telling his physician to "sequence me" helped him kick cancer.

Telemedicine delivers telepsychiatrists to patients' bedsides within minutes, helping make faster determinations on these cases, thereby reducing unnecessary admissions and length of stay, according to Anton Arbatov, senior director SOC Telemed.

In a traditional model, research to bedside takes an average of 17 years. With new technologies such as machine learning, that timeline needs to be shortened, says Ian Z. Chuang, chief medical officer at Elsevier.