Connected Health

University of California, Berkeley, medical scientists use a Bluetooth-enabled tracking watch to study ways the bond between patient and caregiver benefits the patient.

The representatives said they're optimistic about the legislation's forward movement, given President-Elect Joe Biden's support for the 21st Century Cures Act when he was last in the White House.

There is a need to transform the healthcare experience for patients and healthcare workers, so that organisations can thrive under the new normal. Eight critical capabilities must be hardwired into organisations to achieve this goal, says KPMG Saudi Arabia.

Building off its Hospital Without Walls initiative, it's offering new flexibilities around telehealth and remote patient monitoring as the country enters "a new level of crisis response," said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.

Steven Matarelli, senior clinical executive at Vocera Communications, says technologies must be able to interact effectively with other technologies and thereby build on interoperability, a key consideration in any transformation strategy.

HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf and Executive Director of Clinical Research Anne Snowdon discuss what HIMSS and the SCAN Network are doing to help healthcare systems strengthen their supply chains.

But at the AMIA virtual symposium this week, health IT professionals said they still see the potential of app-based ecosystems.

Clinicians struggle with connectivity, integration and system failures, according to a new report from SOTI.

The report surveyed 2,000 people on their attitudes towards advancing technology in health and social care and contains government recommendations.