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Accelerate Health – The Innovation Channel

COVID-19's role in advancing telehealth services at Yale New Haven

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Pam Hoffman, the medical director of telehealth services at Yale New Haven Health Services and Yale Medicine, discusses how telehealth became a service that required a "clinical champion" to a necessary part of the health system's offerings.

 

'Collaboration brings innovation': Importance of including patient voice in healthcare

Swapna Kakani, a patient advocate, tells her story of living with a rare disease and becoming a part of the emerging wave of patient leaders.
 

Consumer devices alone won't bring communities into smart city ecosystems

Connected thermostats and fitness trackers are a good start toward smart communities, but Parks Associates' Jennifer Kent says consumers expect many digital health devices to be reimbursed or provided by public or industry stakeholders.
 

Designing for seniors means designing for all

Dr. Joe Kvedar, senior advisor of virtual care at Mass General Brigham, discusses the future of virtual care as the population ages.
 

Urgency of finding COVID-19 solutions is accelerating innovations

Brigham Digital Innovation Hub's Santosh Mohan and Dr. Mark Zhang discuss how the team sprang into action to address the growing needs of COVID-19 care and how innovations that once took months to create are now taking just days in some cases.