Digital Checkup (596)

Bringing telehealth and other tools into the doctor’s office increases access and destigmatizes mental health conditions, says Dr. Nele Jessel, chief medical officer at athenahealth.

Discussion of how this can be, and how healthcare can increase adoption of AI with appropriate guardrails in place for safety, transparency and ethics, from Peter Shen, head of the digital and automation business at Siemens Healthineers.

Pauliina Ilmonen, mathematician at Aalto University in Finland, discusses a project she and her colleagues are working on emulating a zombie plague to garner insights into how a major event like a pandemic or mass disinformation can spread.

Dr. Atta Behfar, CEO and cofounder of Rion, discusses the company's collaboration with Mayo Clinic and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute thanks to a $2.4 million grant from the DoD to study Rion's Exosome Product for service members.

Sumit Rana discusses how artificial intelligence is helping providers generate progress notes, respond to patients' questions and assist with medical coding. And shows how AI sometimes can be more empathetic than humans.

Not possible a few years ago, encryption-in-use technology is making protected data transfers more secure. Meanwhile, a looming Y2K-like race to update software for quantum safety is on the way, says Dan Draper, founder and CEO of CipherStash.

The interoperability group’s Data Usability Taking Root project is working to advance information exchange while making fragmented and incomplete data more usable for clinicians. Dr. Holly Miller, chief medical officer at MedAllies, explains more.

Meaningful use created large electronic attack surfaces that smaller hospitals cannot afford to protect. "We've got to be able to do something to incent those smaller community hospitals," says Wes Wright, chief healthcare officer of Ordr.

AI-driven cardiac imaging in the hands of any medical professional can enhance the speed of acute, field, EMS and rural patient care decisions, according to UltraSight CEO Davidi Vortman.

John Pickhaver, head of infrastructure and energy capital for the Americas at Macquarie Capital, discusses the White House-led initiative to improve energy efficiency across the healthcare sector and Macquarie’s $300 million contribution.

Post-pandemic health equity can be fueled by investments in social work and technologies that make resources accessible to all people, says Felisha Norrington, director of academic assistance at GSU's College of Nursing and Health Professions.

Gina Bertolini, partner at K&L Gates, says health systems must invest time and resources to test their information systems to get ahead of cybercriminals.