Telehealth

Friedrich Lämmel, CEO of EC2VC pitch competition winner Thryve, talks about the future of digital health startups as mature technologies push the boundaries of the market and user base.

CEO Liz Ashall-Payn discusses the review process of health apps by the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application, an accredited reviewing engine.

Karen DeSalvo, former national coordinator and professor at Dell Medical School, says there are too many patient portals, so the trend now is to put all of a patient's data in one place so they can access it via smartphone.

Karen Appelbaum, director at Providence St. Joseph Health, discusses how technology can be used as an extension of the way to know patients and care for them.

There is much value in having disparate health data – clinical, financial, biometric, genomic, social determinant and more – aggregated in one accessible place, says Kristen Valdes, founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health.

Jonah Comstock, editor in chief of MobiHealthNews, shares observations from the Patient Experience Summit 2019, including how healthcare organizations are learning from other industries how to solve patient experience and consumerization issues.

Denise Hines, Chief Americas Officer at HIMSS, talks about the need for healthcare IT to take a full look at the patient and what's next in patient empathy and experience.

Pairing clinicians and researchers with the right digital technology will improve outcomes, says Katie McMillan, associate director of the Mobile App Gateway at Duke University Health System.

Stressing the importance of app validation, Dr. Jack Resneck, Jr., chair of the board of trustees at the American Medical Association, says technology can either improve or reinforce disparities around outcomes in healthcare.

While technology enables communication between patient and provider, implementing patient engagement requires much more, says Sam Hanna, professor and associate dean at American University.