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Hanwha Vision's Chris Lennon discusses how the company's AI-powered video systems can help detect aggressive patient behavior, reduce workflow bottlenecks and enable virtual care so health systems can optimize staffing and safety.

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.

Artificial intelligence-driven cost estimation tools and telehealth are addressing patient care gaps and improving care access while lowering total costs for employee groups, says Robin Glass, president of Included Health.

Fakeeh Care Group CIO Dr Tamara Sunbul shares how hospitals can unlock virtual wards' potential to improve bed turnover.

MaineHealth has had much success in the field of telemedicine. Its medical director of telehealth and virtual care Dr. Tracy Jalbuena and its VP of telehealth and virtual care Lizzy Mulcahy offer detailed advice on expansion and patient involvement.

Asian Hospital and Medical Center CIO Franklin Vibar shares how the health system encourages doctors to use the EMR system.

How smart rooms are redefining the role of the bedside nurse and how the CNO and his team plan to prevent tech fatigue among staff to ensure the investment continues to deliver value, per the health system's chief nursing officer Duane Perry.

Dr. Sarah Hoffe, interim chair of GI oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, shares how a virtual reality (VR) tool helped relieve a patient's anxiety about undergoing treatment by enabling him to experience a simulation of the procedure.

Dr. Galia Barkai, director general of Sheba Beyond, a virtual hospital affiliated with Israel's largest medical center, says the facility blends telemedicine with in-person visits to deliver hospital-quality care remotely.

Amid labor shortages, Scott Wilson, AVP of HHS enterprise care solutions at Teladoc Health, says virtual platforms can help health systems optimize staffing and manage costs through virtual nursing and hospital at home programs.

Sumit Nagpal, Cherish Health CEO, says his company's tool can help monitor patients who may not want to, or remember how to, enter their own data into a health app.

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