Patient experience can be a constraining lens as health moves outside the hospital into the community, says Winjie Miao, senior executive vice president and chief experience officer at Texas Health Resources.

The entry of large companies into the ecosystem will have an amazing effect on data sharing and ultimately how patient-centric care is delivered, says Mark Kramer, chief engineer for MITRE's Health Technology Center (HTC).

Omri Shor, CEO of Medisafe, describes how his company's medication management platform, which is now integrated with Apple Health Records, enables an easier way to keep tabs on prescriptions and boost medication adherence.

Risa Stack, general manager at GE Ventures, discusses new trends in consumerism and patient engagement and describes advances in pharmacogenomic therapies – and explains how IT infrastructure and care processes must evolve to enable their potential.

Preview of what industry insiders and innovators have to say about connected care with the patient at the center.

Properly vetted apps and technologies present an opportunity for the underserved to get needed help, says Dr. John Herman, associate chief of the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Phil Marshall, chief product officer at Conversa Health, says his company has seen growing enthusiasm for healthcare chatbots across both sides of the aisle.

(Sponsored) Clinicians must be empowered with the right tools that remove barriers to reconnecting with patients, while protecting data privacy, says Kathy Minnis, director of product strategy at Microsoft.

James Hawkins, director of strategy at NHS Digital, discusses how the NHS.UK platform empowers patients by providing, among various functions, an apps library that includes an app that allows users to access their own records.

Konstantin Hyppönen, chief architect at Kanta Services in Finland, discusses enabling patients to manage their own healthcare from home with right tools and identifying new care pathways available with secondary use of data.

Rare conditions have been identified and treated successfully through pediatric gene testing, and is just one area of care that has been transformed, says Kate Birch, head of data and technology at Melbourne Genomic Health Alliance, Australia.

Augmented reality and virtual reality can help patients understand their condition better and plays a major role in training residents in different approaches to surgery, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.