Clinical

With an aging population, disconnected health information systems and a rising consumer, Hal Wolf, HIMSS President and CEO, says that breaking down barriers to information exchange will support delivery of better services and technology.

Dr. Manish Kohli, HIMSS Enterprise Board Chair, discusses physician burn-out and delivering insights for better clinical decision making, adding that success will come when the technology becomes invisible while patients are in front of doctors and nurses.

Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities, says that clinicians can be inventors, and embrace change – as he learned at the UK's Royal London Hospital – by ensuring the patient voice remains prominent when developing innovative strategies at a leadership level.

Dzulkefly Ahmad, Malaysia's minister of health, says that even if an organization has a good program and system in place, digitizing healthcare will not succeed if there is no clinical buy-in underpinned by training.

HIMSS Analytics Regional Director for Europe and Latin America John Rayner details Turkey’s progress in digitizing public hospitals as more than 160 organizations are recognized at Stage 6 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM).

The American Medical Association launched the Integrated Health Model Initiative to bring unorganized data together for a collaborative validation process and Jesse Ehrenfeld, president-elect of the AMA, explains how they plan to do it.

Chad Wilson, director of information security at Children’s National, explains how timely access to applications in a healthcare setting is measured in seconds so the balance between usability and security is a big challenge.

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.

Beth Kutscher, senior news editor for healthcare at LinkedIn, explains how the social networking platform is developing digital health content and what it believes it can do to address the disconnect between technology and care delivery.

Jack Resneck, chair of the American Medical Association Board of Trustees, emphasizes the need for physicians to be involved in the early stages of app development to ensure they actually improve the overall care quality for patients.