Patient Engagement

Andy Payne, PHR Subject Matter Expert, NHS Digital, says that using digital tools helps free up clinic time, makes it easier for patients to access care while improving patient outcomes.

Chair Global Board of Directors, HIMSS, Dr. Manish Kohli discusses global struggles with quality, access and cost of care and how China has stepped up to those challenges with remarkable speed and level of ambition.

John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital, discusses the benefits, challenges and evolution with voice technologies amid the growing number of apps and interest from major companies and health systems today.

Telehealth should prove valuable to rural and small city-dwelling patients who have to travel to get to the healthcare they need, says Wael A. Kabli, Cura CEO.

Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities, says that providing patients with control of their data is essential and that smartphones are an indispensable tool for empowering the patient.

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.

(Sponsored) Ali Slimani, Cerner's general manager of strategic partnerships for Middle East sales, says Cerner is aligned with IHI's "Quadruple Aim," which includes improving patient and clinician experience well as lowering overall cost of care.

Hazel Jones, program director of Apps & Wearables at NHS Digital talks about the wide range of healthcare apps that were put through a stringent assessment process before being made available in the UK's NHS apps library.

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.

Matt Park, the general manager of the Swiss-based company Dacadoo Americas, explains how the company’s health scoring app works and their bet consumers also want to calculate their real-time health risks with a new component of the open API.