The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the Digital transformation handbook for primary health care, a roadmap to help countries digitize their health information to improve how health services are delivered.
The 98-page roadmap was codeveloped through years of collaboration with the Human Reproduction Program and the Department of Digital Health and Innovation.
It was written with the...
As one of the nation’s largest health systems, serving more than nine million veterans and supporting over 400,000 healthcare providers across the country, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs knew the importance of virtual care long before the pandemic forced its acceleration.
To Dr. Christina Armstrong, a clinical psychologist at the VA’s Office of Connected Care, virtual care lets providers...
The pandemic has led to a “complete transformation” in how many healthcare organizations operate due to the industry’s ongoing digital transformation, according to Thomas Kurian the CEO of Google Cloud.
Kurian joined HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf today in a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session where the two looked back on the last 18 months and offered insights into what the future of...
One of the few silver linings to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is healthcare’s digital transformation. The past year and a half saw increased rates of telehealth usage, record-breaking investments in digital health companies and more organizations adopting artificial intelligence in innovative ways.
In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session set to air on Monday, August 9, Hal Wolf, the...
In a field plagued with clinical burnout, many tout emerging technologies as the key to making providers fall back in love with healthcare.
Advancements like electronic health records and telehealth are designed to lift some of the burdens off healthcare workers' backs, but now some fear these and other tools are doing the exact opposite.
In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session set to air...
Novartis's digital strategy hasn't changed too much since MobiHealthNews spoke with the pharma company in 2018. But, at the HLTH virtual conference this week, Novartis Chief Digital Officer Betrand Bodson reiterated the company's four-part strategy, focusing especially on its partnerships, including those with Microsoft, Amazon and China's Tencent.
"We started this agenda in earnest two and a...
Innovation: Everybody wants it for their organization, but it's easier said than done. Healthcare organizations are often risk- and change-averse, and with good reason — a smooth workflow in a hospital can be a matter of life or death.
"Physicians are not here to stand in the way of innovation," AMA Chair Jack Resneck said at a recent event. "Frankly we have embraced innovation for decades if not...
New York’s Northwell Health is a few years into the rollout of its digital patient experience, a reinvention of the hospital’s website and patient outreach tools. At the Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Summit last week, an event co-organized by HIMSS, Northwell Chief Experience Officer Sven Gierlinger and Emily Kagan Trenchard, VP of digital and innovation strategy, laid out some of the...
There’s an old saying: A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. And for the long journey of digital hospital transformation, that step is creating a robust, accurate, usable provider directory.
That’s the thesis of Sara Vaezy, chief digital strategy officer for Providence St. Joseph Health. Vaezy will take the stage at HIMSS19 with Travis Moore, VP of sales at Kyruus, Providence’s...
DX: Hospital executives and IT pros might as well get used to those initials, which analyst house IDC and some others use to refer to "digital transformation."
While DX is not an entirely new concept, IDC just projected that the overall DX market will blast off toward $20 trillion in short order, representing more than 20 percent of GDP. Global GDP, that is.
IDC determined that fewer than 5...
