Mobile

FiveP's Baret, a messaging solution that came out of the pandemic, has been scaled to promote efficient clinical communications at Austin Health.

QR codes designed to improve data transfer can entice healthcare data breaches. Sharat Potharaju of Beaconstac shares advice on how to safely bolster data security while providing patients the ease of mobile access.

Smartphone tools can help improve health equity by improving care access and empowering patients to collect and transmit their own data via wearables, says Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine.

"We are at a tipping point where technology can help disrupt what used to only occur within doctors' offices and enable people to get access to affordable and accessible guidance," says the health system's chief digital engagement officer.

The promise of hospital-at-home in the U.S. and improving clinical informatics in the MENA region, as told by Dr. Anwar Jebran, clinical informatics fellow at UI Health and member of the HIMSS Physician Committee.

The Victorian Heart Hospital has adopted a role-based messaging platform provided by FiveP.

At HIMSS23, panelists discussed why health systems need to consider the unique needs of their patient populations when implementing remote patient monitoring programs.

Houston Fire Department Associate Medical Director Michael Gonzalez talks essential prehospital management of EMS patients boosted by telemedicine technologies.

With more than 750 WiFi-enabled tablets funded by the FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program, the partners aim to increase affordable broadband access and provide psychosocial oncology care to the underserved.

The goal was to remove unnecessary barriers patients encountered when seeking answers and do so in a way that empowered the clinical team to provide the best care experience possible.