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HIMSS UAE eHealth Week 2019

Vocera exec explains new Smartbadge

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The concept was born out of a need to integrate Vocera’s badge technology and smartphone capabilities into a single device, says the company's Senior Clinical Executive Steven Matarelli.

 

Startup building user-centric health record on blockchain

Medicalchain SVP of Operations Wael Alkhalidi said the company is using distributed ledger technology to enable patients to find all their medical data in one place.
 

Dubai Hospital exec on 30-year journey to HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6

Fahad Ali Nasir Nasiri, Head of the Health Information Management Section at Dubai Hospital, explains how the system went from entirely paper-based in the 1980s to almost entirely paper-less today and moving toward EMRAM Stage 7.

 

Improving access to healthcare services systematically

In a traditional model, research to bedside takes an average of 17 years. With the advent of new technologies, including machine learning, that needs to change to a shorter timeline, says Ian Z. Chuang, chief medical officer at Elsevier.
 

AI will become effective in 2-3 years, hospital exec says

Artificial intelligence is "jumping information technology," but robots will still require human beings, according to Mahmoud Saleh El Halik, the head of Health Informatics at Latifa Women and Children's Hospital.