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Summit 2022
Takeaways, Trends and Prognostications from Summit ‘22
If I had to choose one word to encapsulate the 2022 Emids Healthcare Summit, it’s change. From reverting back to an in-person gathering after three years of meeting remotely, to being purposeful about creating an event that’s reflective of the direction we hope healthcare is moving (more on that later), to a shift in attendees’ moods […]
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Summit 2022
Summit ’22: Healthcare Disruption Is Heading Our Way
Nashville, Tenn.—The U.S. healthcare system is ripe for disruption and that disruption may come from any direction. This was one of the many threads that came up at the 2022 Emids Healthcare Summit, which brought together healthcare leaders from across the country to Nashville, Tenn., to tackle some of the contemporary challenges facing the industry […]
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Summit 2022
Tech Forum: Here’s What Healthcare Technology Leaders Are Talking About Today
Nashville, Tenn.—The evolution of healthcare is rapidly unfolding, and the industry needs to keep up. That was a sentiment many healthcare leaders echoed on Day One of the Emids Healthcare Summit, which entailed the Tech Forum—an event catering to healthcare and life sciences technology leaders, CTOs and CIOs. Healthcare Technology Challenges Josleyn added that other […]
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Consumer Experience
Data
How Better Management of Wearables Data Can Lead to Better Clinical Outcomes
From counting steps to remote monitoring, how we deal with the building mountain of wearable data will determine the future of consumer acceptance. Wearable electronic health and fitness devices are in strong demand with 26 percent of U.S. households owning one as of 2018, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). They projected over 12.5 […]
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Consumer Experience
Design Thinking
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The Opportunity and Necessity of Inclusive Health Product Design
Now is the Time for Inclusive Design The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined how healthcare services are delivered. There is a shift from in-person consultations and paper documentation to virtual consultations and electronic documentation. As a result, patients, clients and healthcare providers including many with a range of disabilities are having an increased number of interactions […]
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Data
Understanding the Language of Healthcare Data
The Healthcare Data Language Crisis Healthcare organizations have been capturing, collecting, transforming, accessing, analyzing, securing, and storing large amounts of data for many years, and yet there is still doubt in trusting and/or understanding their data and how to utilize it. For many healthcare organizations, data is still a vast, field of information and definitions, […]
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Data
Interoperability
Why Legacy System Integration is Necessary for Health Apps
Digital Health Funding is Driving Transformation If you look around, almost all industries have significantly digitized their customer touch points, but healthcare has been slow in catching up. Until the pandemic that is. The pandemic opened the eyes of many large health systems, health plans and even the investor community to recognize the need to […]
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Emids Culture
Key Insights on Innovating the Healthcare System Together
The Nashville Healthcare Council (the Council) is where healthcare leaders come together to deepen their knowledge on the challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. healthcare system. I was privileged to be one of the 33 healthcare fellows selected for the class of 2022. For the last five months we have explored an array of topics […]
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Payer
Humana’s Low-Code Partnership Approach to Rapid Digital Innovation
In an era of rapid digital healthcare innovation, Humana, the third largest health insurance company in the U.S. faced several challenges within its digital channels unit to rapidly bring new solutions to market. It was laden with complex architecture, which meant IT had to tread carefully, given the importance of safeguarding personal health information for […]
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Data
Interoperability
Top 3 Healthcare Data Challenges from Industry Leaders
Thanks to the digital economy, data is now the new gold. In the healthcare and life sciences industries, data is improving the lives of patients and making it efficient for providers to deliver care in novel ways. A deluge of data, however, comes with its own set of challenges. To get a better understanding of […]
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Data Engineering
Life Sciences
Medtronic Seamlessly Integrates Nerve Monitoring System Data with Backend EHR
Medtronic is the largest maker of surgical equipment in the world. One of its offerings is a nerve integrity monitoring (NIM) system to help surgeons avoid accidents that can impede or even end nerve function for patients during surgery. With its existing product, operating room staff copied reports from the NIM to the EHR using […]
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Consumer Experience
Digital Transformation
Healthcare’s Next Frontier: Care Powered by Augmented and Virtual Reality
Augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR) have potential to transform the way healthcare is delivered while simultaneously improving the consumer and provider experience. Adoption of this technology has been high in industries like gaming, entertainment and retail—leading to a new age of interactive consumer experiences. Industries like healthcare, education and real estate are now […]