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Gurpreet Singh, partner and U.S. Health Services sector leader at PwC, explains the concept of a ‘digital twin’ to help patients make better choices, any shares his ideas about many other ideas of consumer-based tools for healthcare.

Integration into a clinical workflow is only way to provide value and this app doesn’t offer that yet but many are hopeful Apple can do it.

The health IT sector should look to drug and device industries as examples to establish a successful ecosystem of innovation.

MGMA CEO Halee Fischer-Wright offers a healthy dose of skepticism about patient access to data, digital and remote health services and wearables. And then she cautions about the two things the industry must not forget to do.

Feeding data directly from a medical device into medical records has reduced errors, improved patient safety and increased caregiver efficiency.

Baystate Health CIO Joel Vengco talks with Healthcare IT News about applying the three pillars of IT to healthcare, as well how his organization has focused on optimizing their legacy EHR rather than replacing it.

It’s generally thought that healthy people are more health-engaged than people diagnosed with medical issues. But that’s old health school thinking: most health consumers managing chronic conditions say they’ve become more engaged with healthcare over the past two years, according to CDW’s 2017 Patient Engagement Perspectives Study.

The action continues on day two of HIMSS17 with a Women in Health IT Roundtable, Cybersecurity Command Center presentations, and more.

Dale Nordenberg, Executive Director at MDISS, explains how the progress of initiatives for data exchange and interoperability relates to the increased risk of a cyberattacks.

Eight in 10 U.S. patients would welcome some aspect of virtual healthcare, but only 1 in 5 providers is meeting that need.