Decision Support

OMNY Health co-founder and COO Sunny Grewal, whose 3.5-minute elevator pitch was the audience's top pick at the "Shark Tank"-like competition, explains how his distributed ledger tech can help hospitals monetize mounds of unused data.

Mirko De Maldè, president at Government Blockchain Association Italy, says data ownership, access and control, in addition to consent management, are just a few of the benefits that blockchain can provide in healthcare.

However, blockchain technology is still in its infancy, so expectations should be managed accordingly, says Dr. Abdullah Albeyatti, CEO and co-founder at Medicalchain.

Google Product Manager Jonathan Sheffi on how Google Cloud makes it easier to ingest and process genomic data at scale to run analytics that provide intriguing insight.

Dr. Bassam Mahboub, the former head of the innovation team at the Dubai Health Authority, says when data is publicly available, it makes the whole system more agile and more innovative.

Artificial intelligence can help support and guide care providers' decision-making processes in an era of increasing volume and complexity of data in clinical situations, says Dimitri Fane, director of product management of TrakCare at InterSystems.  

Neil Patel, president of Healthbox, which was acquired by HIMSS in March, talks about how  his company provides the platforms and opportunities for digital health startups to link up with payers and providers.

Emily Vaughn, product development director of Change Healthcare, and Tim Dunlevy, VP of engineering at PokitDok, share what they think is the first wave of use cases and talk about the process of going from private to public blockchain networks.

HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf  discusses the digital healthcare market in China and how that technology can help improve access and quality of services in the country.

Focus on business value, such as lowering costs, improving productivity, and increasing revenue when trying to get executive buy-in for cybersecurity funding, says Shakira Brown, CEO of SMB Strategic Media.