HIMSS TV
Theresa Payton, president and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, explains how to avoid digital disasters with a segmentation strategy that includes on-going testing with data, equipment and third-party vendors to put security assumptions to the test.
Manal Almalki, of Jazan University in Saudi Arabia, is empowering patients to monitor their health at home so they can gain insights into their own body using wearables; the tool is also aggregating data during the patient-run experiments.
Prof Xiangliang Zhang, associate professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, is working with biology data to understand the relationship between disease, genes and drugs to gain better insight to develop predictive models; and encouraging students into pursue careers in data science.
Mazen Sobh, regional business manager at CareStream in the Middle East, outlines the financial, technical, clinical and security benefits of cloud computing for imaging but says key advantage is patient access in a variety of care settings.
Meshari Alwazae, manager of data and information management for King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, explains how the hospital achieved Stage 6 of the HIMSS Analytics adoption model.
Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.
Gyre Renwick, vice president at Lyft, is leading the company’s healthcare team to develop partnerships and find solutions to address the major social determinant of health that impact people’s lives – getting to the doctor before an emergency.
Kamal Obbad, co-founder and CEO of Nebula Genomics, is working to help consumers understand consent and the risks to consider before giving someone access to their data based on a blockchain model.
Advancing open APIs so consumers can better coordinate their healthcare is a key piece of the 21st Century Cures Act implementation for Thomas Mason, MD, chief medical officer for National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Kyra Bobinet, MD, founder the neuroscience-based design firm EngagedIN, is working with AI algorithms in Walmart’s First Tri app to build a brain taxonomy to identify behavior to help individuals understand what motivation changes their food habits.