Digital Checkup (630)

Dr. Monica Bharel, Advanced Clinical senior public health advisor and former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, discusses how public and private sectors can pool resources to improve health outcomes during times of crisis.

Accessible cybersecurity information helps cross-functional teams improve business continuity planning, which can mitigate impacts after an attack, says Gerry Blass, CEO of ComplyAssistant and Frank Sinatra, CISO at Newark's University Hospital.

John Menefee of Travelers Bond and Specialty Insurance, talks about optimizing risk tolerance, what cyber carriers are looking for and how they are getting better at helping to protect healthcare organizations.

The provider organization's CEO explains how specially trained medical assistants (dubbed "tele-MAs") travel to patients' homes and enable full exams virtually.

Bob Fine, executive director and founder of the International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association (IVRHA), discusses the 7th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium, VR use in healthcare and the evolution of medical XR.

Barbara Rothbaum, executive director of the Emory Healthcare Veterans Program and Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, shares how the two-week program fuses technology and traditional therapy to treat post-911 vets at no cost.

Epic’s next step as a QHIN is to explain the benefits of TEFCA to provider organizations and simplify their connectivity, says Matt Doyle, R&D Team Lead and Software Development Team Leader for Interoperability.

With big issues about safety, efficacy and transparency at stake with AI and machine learning, boards need to be thinking harder about how such tools are approved and deployed, says Tom O’Neil, managing director of Berkeley Research Group.

Anurag Lal, CEO of NetSfere and former director of the FCC's National Broadband Task Force, discusses the proportionate roles of people, process and technology as providers build defense strategies against a fast-changing threat landscape.

Gabriel Seidman, director of policy for the Ellison Institute, discusses the Institute's efforts toward creating a nationwide enterprise architecture for health data that includes clinical, public health and social determinants data.

Vishakha Sharma, principal data scientist at Roche Diagnostics Information Solutions, discusses how natural language processing and machine learning can help clinicians work more efficiently to improve the quality of patient care.

Dr. Sunny Kumar, a partner at GSR Ventures, a digital health investment firm with $3 billion assets under management, talks top priorities, areas of interest, investment hits and the difference between tech and tech-enabled services.