Patient Engagement

Victoria Betton, mHabitat founder and director and HIMSS UK Advisory Council member, says anonymity and remote access are just two benefits of using digital tools to help improve people's mental well-being.

AI can help with recognizing patterns and diagnosis, but physicians still need to use clinical judgment and manage the patient as a person, says Colin Tan, associate professor of ophthalmology at Duke NUS Medical School.

Accenture's Kaveh Safavi discusses healthcare's outsized spend on labor – and how machine learning, telehealth and consumerism are transforming how work is done and who does it.

Dr. Abayomi Jaye, founder of Lagos, Nigeria-based Cecy Health Consult, explained how personal loss led to founding a company that helps his country's underserved patients.

Mikko Vasama, general manager of Health Systems Nordics at Philips, says training, education and access to technology for patients are imperative, especially when working within a publicly funded healthcare system.

The Dubai Health Authority is integrating devices and informatics with the EHR to improve experience for pediatric patients, says DHA nurse Ashish Ann John.

Zoltan Lantos, head of Social Innovation Lab at iAsk, says we need to learn more about consumers' behaviors before we maximize the global potential of the human and machine collaboration in healthcare.

Pay for performance models continue to experience a hard time, especially those that try to leverage capitated payment schemes to reach the ‘triple aim’ of improved population health, enhanced patient care, and cost reduction. 

As more than 200 health systems have signed on with the patient empowerment movement, population health, patient safety and quality improvement gains are apparent.

Simer Sodhi, director of data management & analytics at Westchester Medical Center, says the organization integrated data from the EHR using a machine learning algorithm to connect patients to the right sources of care.