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Dr. Thomas Keane, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT, describes his plans for the conference and talks about TEFCA, HTI-4, HTI-5, imaging data, behavioral health exchange and more.
As health systems around the world grapple with an array of pressing challenges, it's time to "skate where the puck is going to be." In Las Vegas from March 9-12, IT leaders can help point the way forward for AI-powered digital transformation.
Alex Aliper, Insilico Medicine's president, says that longevity progress is already being made, but that regulators need to classify aging as a disease and track its biomarkers to enable more therapeutic advances.
Dr. Scott Parazynski, founder and CEO of OnwardAir, says that innovations created to treat astronauts in the extreme environment of space have the potential to improve remote care and aging research on Earth.
With analytics and omnichannel strategies like hyper-personalized fotonovelas, providers are leapfrogging over social determinants of health barriers to earn trust, improve patient engagement and close care gaps, says Bob Farrell, CEO of mPulse.
Tom Gillette, CIO of non-profit Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, says artificial intelligence tools raise health equity and support more personalized care in South Florida and Dade County where 60% of the residents speak Spanish.
H.E. Mubaraka Ibrahim, CIO and chief AI officer of Emirates Health Services, says the country is building an AI governance model that pairs clinical innovation with policy, training and prevention-focused population health.
Surprisingly, researchers found no correlation between department closures and negative outcomes for patients driving greater distances, says Martin Gaynor, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Health AI Partnership is offering technical assistance to help FQHCs and community hospitals bridge the digital divide, says Dr. Mark Sendak, population health & data science lead at the Duke Institute for Health Innovation.
Follow-up appointments, transitional care when there’s the risk of readmission, benefit patients and can be done by telehealth, says Dr. Matthew Thompson, an ER physician and the CEO and cofounder of Telescope Health.
Peninsula Health is participating in the statewide HIE project to address data integration challenges, shares Dr Shyaman Menon, executive director of Medical Services.
Ida Tin, founder and CEO of Femtech Assembly, cites a McKinsey report that found poor healthcare for women costs $1 trillion per year worldwide and she says investing in women's health is essential to bolstering global economies and infrastructure.