Digital Health

In a look ahead to the HIMSS Asia-Pacific Conference, happening in Bali on 27 - 28 September, 2022, stakeholders talked to HIMSS about digital transformation's promises for delivering improved care.

The effort to strengthen the digital health workforce needs cooperation and streamlining, says Georgi Chaltikyan, MD, head of digital health and professor at Deggendorf Institute of Technology.

NHS Digital CEO Simon Bolton says you need to take the people with you in making technology a part of a new program, such as one NHS is working on to extend the digital capability of hospital trusts.

Birgit Bauer, a digital health and patient expert, explains her involvement in the Gravitate Health project's user advisory group by offering a perspective on meaningful patient engagement.

Vice president of digital innovation at Moffitt Cancer Center Santosh Mohan talks about the obstacles for digital healthcare in oncology, and believes providers and startups can improve experiences for patients and clinicians.

SingHealth – Singapore's largest group of healthcare institutions –  by partnering with Citrix, lets its staff access key medical apps remotely and securely, according to Kevin Tay at SingHealth and Christian Boucher at Citrix.

Google is building tools to assist clinicians in making better care decisions, according to Paul Muret, VP and GM of Google for Clinicians, and Aashima Gupta, director of global healthcare solutions for Google Cloud.

Facilities being created now must incorporate the next 10 years of tech, says Samantha Field, public health registrar at NHS.

Alfred Hamilton, Technology Solutions Consulting's CEO and president, discusses how consumers can make better decisions about their health using the data available to them.  

Women Center L.A's Oleg Bess, MD, an OB-GYN, talks about his practice during the pandemic and concludes that private practices need digital transformation to compete with retail clinics and assure the quality of healthcare data.