Quality and Safety
Brian Eastwood, content strategist at ReviveHealth and a HIMSS19 social media ambassador, says hospitals are deploying the tools in patient rooms to handle low-priority tasks like turning on the TV or closing shades.
Andrew Pendergast, VP of product at ThreatConnect, talks about providing external threat intelligence as well as skepticism about AI.
His Excellency Awadh Seghayer Al Ketbi, Assistant Undersecretary for Support Services at Ministry of Health & Prevention in the UAE, details the government's AI strategy to improve outcome for patients and clinical staff.
Mike Fuller, regional managing director at InterSystems, declares that shaping the future of healthcare IT requires an understanding of common problems and solving them in a whole health economy.
Digital health progress is being made at the state level, according to Jim Douglas, former Vermont governor and co-chair of HIMSS State Advisory Roundtable, and Cynthia Green-Edwards, chief compliance officer with the state of Michigan.
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences' Ursula Hübner and University of Scranton's Beth Elias on the Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform and strategic approaches to seamlessly delivering health informatics education.
Liz Rockett, director at Kaiser Permanente Ventures, details how Kaiser looks for innovations that align with its focus on high-value care, putting patients first and thinking about clinicians.
H-SIMM, the new maturity model for supply chain, can help improve patient safety as well as potentially save health systems billions of dollars, according to Anne Snowdon, with the World Health Innovation Network, and Blain Newton with HIMSS.
Tom Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News, talks about the latest news and developments on AI, diversity in the workforce and incorporating agile tactics into cybersecurity best practices.
Haiqing Song, deputy director of the neurology program at the Xuanwu Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences in China, discusses what is needed to effectively leverage technology.