HIMSS TV
ONC Senior Innovation Strategist Stephen Konya discusses the Health and Human Services road show visiting American cities to give digital health upstarts and entrepreneurs better access to federal agencies. The next HHS Startup Day is slated for Nov. 8.
Startups are having the biggest impact working on technology that disrupts access, data gathering, monitoring and care interventions to help patients – as well as alleviate clinician burnout – says cofounder and EVP of Health 2.0 Indu Sabaiya.
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 the high quality healthcare through telemedicine innovations.
Scaling to work with larger healthcare entities for startups requires partnerships and Fran Ayalasomayajula, healthcare executive strategist at HP, has some pro tips on how to make it work.
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.
Despite the healthcare sector’s awareness of medical device flaws, many are still focused on whether a patient has been harmed. But to UC San Diego researcher, emergency medicine provider Christian Dameff, it’s more about retaining patient trust and ensure the technology doesn’t fail.
Manal Almalki, PhD, of Jazan University in Saudi Arabia, is empowering patients to monitor their health at home so they can gain insights into their own body using wearables; the tool is also aggregating data during the patient-run experiments.
Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.
Gyre Renwick, vice president at Lyft, is leading the company’s healthcare team to develop partnerships and find solutions to address the major social determinant of health that impact people’s lives – getting to the doctor before an emergency.
Kamal Obbad, Co-founder and CEO of Nebula Genomics, is working to help consumers understand consent and the risks to consider before giving someone access to their data based on a blockchain model. Nebula Genomics was the winner of the 2018 Health 2.0 Launch! contest.