Quality and Safety

(Sponsored) Not only does AI give providers the ability to better monitor their systems and premises, it also offers real-time response and correction across their networks and facilities.

(Sponsored) With video conferencing and mobile apps, providers are able to offer patients more touchpoints to improve engagement, experience and outcomes at the same time.

Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Chief Healthcare and Innovation Officer at Femwell Group, discusses how the industry has to use metrics to move the needle on quality measures.

Bruce Steinberg, executive vice president of HIMSS International, discusses HIMSS' role helping digital health challenges that are common around the globe and how HIMSS helps facilitate deep dives into the most topical issues in each region.

Tiesong Zhang, president of China's Kunming Children's Hospital, discusses the hospital's use of IT to improve quality, safety and efficiency - and achieve Stage 7 of the EMRAM.

Huimin Xia, CEO of the Stage 7 EMRAM validated Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, explains how IT is a basic driving force for hospital development, and why CEOs need to make it a priority.

Blockchain won't solve every health IT problem, claims WW Health Chief Health Information Security Officer at Microsoft Hector Rodriguez, who offers advice for figuring out where it might, and might not, be a fit for you.

Adrian Zai, director of research at Partners HealthCare, discusses the need to create a framework that supports innovators so they can move new ideas forward.

Although there is clear evidence that mHealth is valuable in treating chronic diseases, standards, governance and integration still need work, says Robert Istepanian of the Institute of Global Innovation at the UK's Imperial College.

We need to look not at what technology can do but, instead, what we should do with robotics to improve life for patients and caregivers, says Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics.