Connected Health

The American Medical Association launched the Integrated Health Model Initiative to bring unorganized data together for a collaborative validation process and Jesse Ehrenfeld, president-elect of the AMA, explains how they plan to do it.

Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, talks about how he’s working to modernize FCC regulations to close the digital divide and help rural communities get high quality healthcare through telemedicine innovations.

Jennifer Esposito, general manager of Health and Life Sciences at Intel, explains how AI benefits workflows with its direct impact to be a seamless integration for physicians and the patient experience.

The idea is to create a connected ecosystem of care, given that "no single device, app, or piece of data in isolation that will deliver benefits to patients."

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.

Collaboration between AT&T, Merck and others combines IoT monitoring, temperature-controlled packaging and the drone to get meds to remote villages.

Retail giant says that buying the aging in place vendor is part of its strategy to offer seniors a wider range of technologies.

CMS is also seeking Blue Button 2.0 app developers, Verma says at second interoperability forum hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in Washington, D.C.

The three-day event, during October in Boston, will include cutting-edge technologies such as social robots, voice interfaces and digital therapeutics.

The center will focus on developing predictive apps from data in EHRs, wearables and other digital health tools.