Remote patient monitoring and digital cognitive health tools are two big areas of interest as Canada seeks improvements to its nationwide health system, says Di Jiang, team lead for connected health at National Research Council Canada.

"The way healthcare is set up, there's a built-in power differential between the patient and the doctor," says Dr. Danny Sands, co-founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine, who explains how his organization works to change that.

Daniel Stein, president of the Stewards of Change Institute, describes how his group is convening diverse industry stakeholders to tackle big challenges such as patient matching.

Jay Spitulnik, associate director of the health informatics graduate program at Northeastern University, says the clinical IT professionals of the future are becoming more attuned to the needs of patients.

(Sponsored) Sven Dethlefs, EVP at Teva Pharmaceuticals, talks about how the company's new ProAir Digihaler detects when the inhaler is used and measures inspiratory flow, giving the patient and provider valuable insight.

Sara Vaezy, chief digital strategy officer at Providence St. Joseph Health, describes the approach behind her group’s development of a patient access platform.

Gilles Lunzenfichter, chief commercial officer at Medisanté, talks how his company simplifies connectivity for in the home for remote patient monitoring by removing the need for Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and the benefits to patients and providers.

Mark Sendak, population health and data science lead at Duke Health, explains the AI and machine learning applications his team is exploring, and how they're making them work safely for patients.

(Sponsored) Jennifer Tan, director of technology solutions at IQVIA Asia Pacific, discusses healthcare challenges and inefficiencies in the region and how the patient-centered care delivery model is no longer an option, but a necessity.

Raj Ratwani, director of MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, discusses how policy, vendors and clinicians can work together to improve EHRs.

(Sponsored) Murray Brozinsky, president and chief strategy officer of Conversa Health, discusses how his company's population health management platform delivers better patient experience while alleviating provider burnout.

The Society for Participatory Medicine's Joseph Ternullo and Eric Bersh talk about how to get patients in the driver's seat of their own care and their group's annual symposium that took place a day before the Connected Health Conference.