Virtual Care (271)

Cybersecurity is a top concern for the HHS Office for Civil Rights, says Director Melanie Rainer, who describes how her office is helping providers understand and meet their security requirements.

Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine, relates how technology can help improve health equity by improving care access and empowering patients to collect and transmit their own data via wearables.

Toby Eadelman, CTO at AvaSure, talks about the benefits of virtual nursing and virtual sitting to address labor-related challenges in the acute care hospital setting by allowing the monitoring of multiple patients remotely.

Dan Ferris, chief marketing officer at Iris Telehealth, discusses the behavioral health provider shortage and how telehealth could connect patients to care in underserved areas.

AI is connecting platforms and enhances hybrid care, says Mike Brandofino, COO and president of Caregility.

Benjamin C. Gonzales, operations manager, virtual care, behavioral health, at Geisinger talks developing a data-driven care navigation workflow to ensure patients were referred to the appropriate provider based on their complaint and level of acuity.

Michael Gonzalez, associate medical director at the Houston Fire Department, discusses essential prehospital management of EMS patients boosted by telemedicine technologies.

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

The true value of automation lies in its ability to free up clinical resources to focus on complex cases, says Dr. Anobel Odisho, associate professor of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco, who will be speaking at HIMSS23. 

Howard Rubin, CIO at Evara Health, an FQHC, discusses the challenges of delivering healthcare to his population, and how telemedicine overcomes those hurdles.

In their upcoming HIMSS23 presentation, Joe Drygas, VP of healthcare for AT&T Business, and Randy Bush, principal at Deloitte Consulting, will discuss the increasingly important role of advanced connectivity in healthcare.

In their upcoming HIMSS23 presentation, Stesha Selsky and Meg Furukawa, nurse informaticists for the UCLA Health System, will discuss how algorithms use patient chart data to measure nursing workload acuity.