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The industry has learned a lot during the last decade, done the best it could in many ways and now we’re ready to use lessons learned to move in new directions, says Subha Airan-Javia, associate professor at Penn Medicine.
Sanofi execs Ruchita Sinha and Christina Koutoudis on how the company is thinking about digital technology, innovation and pharma's role and future.
At a preconference event at MedInIsrael in Tel Aviv, 450 women gathered to learn from each other and share their experiences with healthcare and innovation. Oranit Ido, chairwoman of mHealth Women, has the recap.
Project HEAL CEO and co-founder Kristina Saffran discusses how the organization is working to help those with eating disorders overcome them to improve quality of life and reduce healthcare utilization and cost.
Jen Horonjeff, founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative, on connecting innovators directly with patients so they can work together to design effective products.
The former national coordinator and professor at Dell Medical School says the policy, technology and business trend is to put all of a patient's data in one place so they can access it via smartphone.
Beth Landon, director of policy, New Mexico Hospital Association, said the organization is pushing data to clinicians so they have informed conversations with patients — rather than operating like TSA agents.
Prof. Jane Griffiths, associate professor and chief nursing information officer at the Dubai Health Authority, sees game-changing tech on the healthcare horizon but clinicians need to be on board.
Tools exist to engage patients with their data in ways that create a good relationship with providers — when the technology doesn't get in the way, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president of informatics at HIMSS.
Despite the moaning and groaning leading up to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, now that it's in place EU citizens are better protected, says Angelique Carson, editor of The Privacy Advisor at IAPP.
Jennifer Lannon, advisor at Health Innovation, on the advantages of the new domain that hospitals in Seattle and Miami, for instance, are using for branding and marketing purposes.
Wende Hutton, general partner at Canaan Partners, says there’s room for improvement in transparency and patient identification but there's also the potential for blockchain to be corrupted.