Mobile Health IT

With video conferencing and mobile apps, providers can offer patients more touchpoints to improve engagement, experience and outcomes at the same time.

Telehealth helps providers deliver better child care and treatment, says Cloe Benz, senior physiotherapist at Sydney Children's Hospitals Network.

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

AAPTIV's digital health service is keeping people moving with instruction, guidance and music all mixed together, says CEO Ethan Agarwal.

Healthcare has to collaborate, innovate and extend the reach of care by using the data so many devices will generate to gain insights that can be used to improve outcomes, says Maria Lensing, vice president of global healthcare solutions at AT&T.

Hazel Jones, program director of Apps & Wearables at NHS Digital talks about the wide range of healthcare apps that were put through a stringent assessment process before being made available in the UK's NHS apps library.

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.

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.

Albert Chi, MD, medical director of Muscle Integration at Oregon Health & Science University, and patient Johnny Matheny demonstrate how nerve reassignment and VR rehab work to advance prosthetic limb technology.

John Barto, healthcare evangelist at Microsoft, outlines the early wins systems are seeing by incorporating cognitive computing platforms into their IT stacks.