Telehealth

At HIMSS20, AT&T's global director of strategy and innovation will describe the advantages of 5G cellular and edge computing, and describe some of the best healthcare use cases for the next-gen communication specs.

It's hard for me to believe, but I’ve been at Penn Medicine for 13 years.

All stakeholders need to work collaboratively to provide optimum and personalized patient care, says Dr. Ali Abdulkarim Al Obaidli, group chief academic affairs officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services.

Conveying compassion, or "digital empathy," is possible through such innovative technologies as virtual coaching and chatbots – if consumers trust the healthcare source, says John Sharp, Personal Connected Health Alliance at HIMSS.

In 2019, it offered more than 2.6 million telehealth episodes of care to more than 900,000 veterans. At HIMSS20, a VA leader will show how this, plus innovations such as My HealtheVet and Blue Button, is boosting veterans' patient experience.

While there is a large and growing market for remote patient monitoring technologies, with particular benefits for the older population, simplification of connection technologies – Bluetooth for one – will be key to the broader adoption of RPM in 2020.

At HIMSS20, they'll show how RPM introduces new security risks outside the walls of the hospital – and show how controls can be implemented to help safeguard patients’ privacy as they're cared for in the home.

When driving digital transformation in the clinical workforce, don't forget the human impact, says Dr. Mohammad Al Redha, director of health data and information analysis at Dubai Health Authority.