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Patient-generated data from apps, devices and digital therapeutics will make personal health dashboards that manage wellness possible, says HIMSS Personal Connected Health Alliance Director of Thought Advisory John Sharp. 

Duke University Health System Chief Analytics Officer Stephen Blackwelder details how IT funnels various data sources such as EHRs and claims data into a treasure trove researchers can analyze.

The DoD is deploying a new network built with cybersecurity in mind, using a risk management framework, and undergoing regular white hat assessments, says Program Executive Officer Stacy Cummings.

A quick look back at the competing specs for clinical coding and data exchange gives a glimpse of the some of the challenges still ongoing today.

Conference rooms, conference calls and cubes make it harder to gain the empathic stance necessary for harnessing the world’s knowledge to solve problems, says Intermountain Director of Innovation Todd Dunn.

Subha Airan-Javia, associate professor at Penn Medicine, says the industry has learned a lot during the last decade and now we’re ready to use those lessons learned to move in new directions. 

Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, says the HITECH Act may have pushed forward the digitization of the healthcare system, but it also changed what can go wrong from a legal compliance perspective by an order of magnitude.

Defense Healthcare Management Systems' Stacy Cummings and the DHA's Major General Lee Payne and Pat Flanders discuss the giant change management problem and infrastructure needs for an enterprise EHR implementation.   

11Health puts intelligence and sensors into medical bags attached to patients living with long-term conditions to remotely monitor those patients, says founder and CEO Michael Seres.

Savvy Cooperative connects innovators directly with patients so they can work together to design effective products, says founder and CEO Jen Horonjeff.