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Because of its small population, Shaikh Khalid AlKhalifa, assistant commander of King Hamad University Hospital, says he believes Bahrain will connect all its patient data into a national EMR in 2025 to develop future population health initiatives.
Ryne Natzke, chief revenue officer at TrustCommerce, a Sphere company, talks about how digital tools can provide patients with customized payment plans for unexpected bills and treat them with dignity along their financial journey.
Cole Wiser, executive creative director and partner at The Virtual Wild, and Srini Iyer, SVP and chief technology officer for Leidos' health and civil sector, discuss using holograms and extended reality for patient engagement and training.
How can clinicians extract important information buried in patient charts? Dr. Tim O’Connell, cofounder and CEO of Emtelligent, talks about how NLP can quickly surface relevant data to guide treatment.
Craig Kwiatkowski also discusses whether to build or buy AI, and how patients and clinicians are responding to these tools.
First Databank director of product management Anna Dover and NCH Healthcare System CMIO Dr. David Linz discuss their initiative to explore ways to notify clinicians about possible medication errors without triggering alert fatigue.
Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, medical director of health informatics at Trinity Health, talks about how the health system reaches out to patients on their preferred platform to encourage them to make needed visits.
Combining clinical data and mathematical models can increase precision and expedite treatment plans. Thierry Marchal of Ansys and researcher María Angeles Pérez discuss its use in pediatric abdominal cancer and across specialties.
Khue Tran, chief strategy officer at Azalea Health, talks about how the company's telehealth and EHR tools integrate with partners' remote patient monitoring and chronic care management products to treat patients living in rural "care deserts."
Dr. John Blair, CEO at MedAllies, talks about how qualified health information networks (QHINs) will eventually connect directly to each other to give clinicians and first responders access to complete medical records over a patient's lifespan.
In 2024, Denmark plans to enable patients to record outcomes through their national health portal, says Mette Maria Skjøth, RN, department head at the Dermatology and Allergy Centre of Odense University Hospital.
Patients are concerned that healthcare's digital transformation could worsen existing health inequalities, especially the digital divide, says Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum.