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Juan Santos, SVP of brand experience and innovation at the Tavistock Group, opened the Venture Connect Forum by discussing the community's collection of resident data to improve healthcare outcomes.

Local players are also expected to scale at an international level.

Virtual care company Wheel announced it added the teletherapy, discount drug platform, and data sharing companies to its integrated virtual care ecosystem.   

At HIMSS24, Dr. Denise Hines and Shirelle King of Georgia Health Information Network discuss social integration to foster trust in underserved communities.   

Disability-care focused Kismet recently raised $8 million in seed funding in the United States.

Various factors around ROI on virtual tech should be considered before implementation, such as billing revenue, increased efficiency, downstream revenue and improved outcomes, said experts at the HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum.

The tech company announced it will offer a suite of solutions focused on scalability and flexibility for healthcare organizations.

Also, Medibank's health service unit has tied up with Amwell to support the virtual delivery of its new preventative care program.

DAX copilot will be embedded into Epic systems and use generative AI to help providers focus more on patients and less on administrative tasks such as clinical notes.

Gee Mathen, director of pharmacy clinical applications and technical services at Texas Children's Hospital, discusses his upcoming HIMSS24 session "Combating Counterfeit Drugs and the Drug Supply Chain Security Act."