HIMSS20 Digital

At HIMSS20 Digital, Eugene Kogan, chief technical officer of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Analytics in St. Petersburg, Russia, talks hurdles and wins of moving toward continuous care. 

The study enrolled 420,000, but many participants with suspected atrial fibrillation failed to follow up with a study doctor. 

In the HIMSS20 Digital webinar “Women in Healthcare and Tech: Closing the Gap to Strategic,” Amy McDonough, SVP of Fitbit Health Solutions, and Dr. Ashwini Zenooz, CMO at Salesforce, discussed the importance of having diverse voices at the table. 

Stony Brook University experts describe key design points for a successful in-home senior-health-monitoring system, and their efforts to develop such a tool.

Medical directors at Medical University of South Carolina share practical advice from their work establishing and growing a school-based telemedicine program.

Panelists from the HIMSS20 Digital webinar “The Forgotten Ones: COVID-19’s Impact on the Underserved Communities" talk about managing the virus in vulnerable populations.

 HIMSS launches a COVID-19 Digital Think Tank, which provides an online discussion forum where healthcare professionals and innovators to share ideas, products and best practices. 

The health system is implementing new technologies to help it pinpoint frequent readmissions and identify underlying social determinants of health. 

The new effort is a measure of progress towards a digital health ecosystem. 

AT&T Business' Clint Cetti gives a rundown of new health technologies that could benefit from increased capacity and speed, as well as some key considerations for health systems planning to implement the next-generation network.