Patient Engagement

With Google Health and Apple both reported to be, respectively, closing down and scaling back their healthcare efforts, it's worth asking just how disruptive consumer technology companies can be in this hugely complex and fragmented industry.

The "secret sauce" to effective care is for providers to imagine what the patient is going through and understand the real pain points before implementing a technology touch, says Dr. Adrienne Boissy, chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic.

Watch interviews, reports and insights from industry insiders and luminaries during Day 1 of livestreaming from the 2021 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas.

Post-pandemic, consumers expect more customized, data-driven service tailored for their specific needs, explain Sitecore's Jill Grozalsky Roberson and Perficient's Stephen Tynes.

The Emmy-nominated actor discusses his HIMSS21 keynote, why he cofounded SoulPancake and what Dwight Schrute might be up to lately.

Dr. Danny Sands, chief medical officer at Medisafe, a medication management platform company, discusses the use of digital therapeutics in non-visit based care and participatory medicine.

This week's top stories include the new direct contracting reimbursement model proving popular among payers and providers, and Mass General teaming with YouTube to offer viewers access to credible medical information.

Finding a natural pathway to deliver insulin can transform the lives of patients who suffer from diabetes, while education and finance can drive innovation to improve outcomes, say Diabetology cofounders Glen Travers and Roger New.

Ethical data sharing means patients are the true owners of their data, not the tech experts who have become the de facto owners, say Cotiviti's Nicole Neumarker and Sensyne Health's Derek Baird.

In the series premiere of "Workplace Re-Entry in the Healthcare Industry," Sentara Health's Mark Crowe and Tyler Okoren join host Jonah Comstock to talk about how COVID-19 changed telehealth at Sentara.