Digital Health

Also: MindPortal lands $5 million for its wearable noninvasive brain-computer device and Docbot raises $4 million for its GI-disease-detecting software.   

Wheel provides two main services: telehealth staffing opportunities for clinicians and a scalable virtual care platform for companies.   

11 Health's Justine Seres says when driving innovation, patient experience can't be overlooked, as her late husband, patient advocate Michael Seres, discovered – and his legacy will be continued with the HIMSS Global Patient Innovator Award.

Also: Artificial scores $21.5M for lab automation, medication adherence platform emocha Health completes oversubscribed Series A and DeepScribe raises $5.2M in seed funding.   

Aamir Siddiqi, director of Healthcare End User Computing at VMware, says healthcare organizations need to be more agile and flexible and enable care to be delivered anywhere.

Deep Dive: HIMSS chapters continue to play a significant role in shaping healthcare.

Franka Cadée, president of the International Confederation of Midwives, discusses the need to ensure the use of digital tools preserves compassionate connections between clinicians and patients.

There are three things healthcare systems need to focus on as they move forward with their digital transformation, according to Antoinette Thomas, chief patient experience officer for Microsoft Health and Life Sciences.

Health Innovation Hub Chairman Jörg Debatin discusses how digital infrastructure and interoperability have helped Germany make significant progress in digitizing the patient journey.

Modernizing contact centers with automated and omnichannel capabilities helps contact center agents quickly respond to the needs of patients, says Sean Kennedy, VP and GM of the Public Health Sector at Salesforce.