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Northwell VP Sabina Zak and Conversa Health founder Philip Marshall on transforming how Northwell delivers standardized and personalized information to patients outside its facilities.

Healthcare entrepreneur and patient advocate Kate Milliken shares her journey of starting a business and her experience as a patient advocate for those managing MS. Hear her story and find out what she’ll be doing with HIMSS TV at HIMSS19 in Orlando.

Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, looks not at what technology can do but, instead, what we should do with robotics to improve life for patients and caregivers.

Neha Gavai, head of business development at Wellth, explains how its apps employs various behavioral economics strategies to help engage patients and help them achieve optimal outcomes.

Coviu's PhysioROM telehealth platform allows physiotherapists to monitor their patients' range of motion in a standardized manner for improved reporting and analytics, says Coviu CEO Silvia Pfeiffer.

Blockchain technology allows for the flow of information between treatment points regardless of geographic location to ensure patients get the treatment they need and deserve, says Shada AlSalamah, a visiting scholar at MIT.

Maria Lensing, vice president of global healthcare solutions at AT&T, says healthcare has to collaborate, innovate and extend the reach of care by using the data so many devices will generate to gain insights that can be used to improve outcomes.

With many M&As and joint ventures happening, IT infrastructure leaders must be ready to expand tech capabilities on short notice, Verizon’s Nancy Green says.

Nicola Dames, CEO of Vanilla Blush, talks about how her patient experience provided the inspiration needed to transform her business into a healthcare provider.

Those living with chronic health conditions should be acknowledged and respected as the experts in managing their own care, says Renza Scibilia, Manager, Type 1 Diabetes and Consumer Voice, Diabetes Australia.

Startups should work closely with their target audiences in the product-creation phase and healthcare providers need to be more willing to prescribe digital healthcare solutions, says Karolina Korth, founder of the Kuala Lumpur Health 2.0 chapter.

Hong Xu, CPC Party Secretary at Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, talks digital health, smart hospitals and where tech fits into the government's Healthy China initiative.