Quality and Safety

Stakeholders need to work in a more efficient, "cleverer" way in order to get the NHS on a sustainable path, argues James Freed, chief information officer at Health Education England.

Among the challenges explored at the Oct. 7-10 event in Bangkok, Thailand, will be the challenge of homegrown EMRs and the "iron triangle" of healthcare.

Santosh Mohan, managing director of the Digital Health Innovation Hub at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, says reducing administrative burden is an oft-overlooked first step to innovation.

InterSystems Clinical Product Manager Julie Smith says the industry has moved from solving problems in silos to understanding the associated workflows and then coming to solutions that meet the market need.

Alex Rice, sales and marketing director at dacadoo, describes his company's digital engagement platform.

Deep Dive: The third video of this four-part series on healthcare cybersecurity explores the data and network risks that can be introduced by business partners.

At this year's Health 2.0, attendees were particularly interested in providing patients with their health data, say Jamie Skipper and Damon Davis of Elevation Health Consulting.

Dr. Robert Pearl, author of "Mistreated," discusses lessons learned - from his years as a surgeon, Stanford professor and as CEO of at Kaiser Permanente - about how to improve the American healthcare system with the help of technology.

The current state of health tech investment and value-based care were among the major talking points at this year's Health 2.0 Conference, says Jonah Comstock, HIMSS Media's new director of content development and editor in chief.

Neil Gomes of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health says truly impactful innovations understand and directly address a problem in care.