Quality and Safety
Dr. Richard Milani, chief clinical transformation officer of Ochsner Health System, discusses digital's ability to personalize care to a degree that can't be matched in the analog space and how digital tools are changing the chronic care landscape.
Swapna Kakani, a patient advocate, talks about living with a rare disease and becoming a part of the emerging wave of patient leaders.
There is new momentum around finding more effective means of patient identity and matching, and Verato CEO Mark LaRow says the company's referential matching technology can help.
Anya Eldan, VP of the Startup Division of the Israel Innovation Authority, says Israel is fostering innovation in life sciences, nanotechnology, material engineering, genomics and more.
The trial has not been paused as the volunteer did not receive the COVID-19 vaccine but was part of the control group.
Black women, regardless of education or socioeconomic status, are four times more likely to die from preventable pregnancy-related complications.
Dr. Jacob Reider, CEO of Alliance for Better Health, discusses the data and IT demands of coordinating social determinants of health efforts - and the imperative to serve underserved communities, where effects from COVID-19 will be felt long after the pandemic has subsided.
Dr. Afzal Chaudhry, CMIO at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust in the UK, says technology has been embraced by the workforce to improve patient outcomes in areas such as barcode medicine and sepsis.
Failure to achieve herd immunity could place additional stress on a healthcare system that’s already struggling due to the coronavirus.
Smartphones are being used to help detect skin conditions, says Gavin Matthews, UK business development director at SkinVision.