Telehealth

Konstantin Hyppönen, chief architect at Kanta Services in Finland, discusses how better tools can enable patients to manage their own healthcare from home.

James Hawkins, director of strategy at NHS Digital, discusses how the NHS.UK platform provides users with an app that allows them to access their own records, book appointments, order prescriptions and do basic triage.

The health apps landscape is growing beyond just wellness management, says Liz Ashall-Payne, co-founder and CEO of ORCHA.

In 2018, non-hospital-based provider-to-patient telehealth accounted for 84 percent of all telehealth claim lines.

Physicians of almost all age groups show an interest in pursuing telemedicine jobs or service lines.

Brian de Francesca, CEO of Ver2 Digital Medicine, aims to connect refugees with doctors via a ubiquitous telehealth platform.

The program would provide an 85% discount on telehealth connectivity expenses for health organizations serving rural communities.

Two benefits of using digital tools to help improve people's mental well-being are anonymity and remote access, says Victoria Betton, mHabitat founder and director and HIMSS UK Advisory Council member.

We need to learn more about consumers' behaviors before we maximize the global potential of the human and machine collaboration in healthcare, says Zoltan Lantos, head of Social Innovation Lab at iAsk.

Over 90% of hospitals in Korea use an e-health system that tracks the patient journey; now the aim is to develop systems outside medical institutions, says Taegyun Song, director of Korea Health Industry Development Institute.