Emerging Technologies

During the pandemic, digital tools have been widely adopted across the globe, with remote monitoring for chronic care being popular in the Nordics, says Marianne Larsson, director of new industries and innovation at Innovation Skåne.

IBM Watson Health VP Mark O'Herlihy discusses how using new, fast and frequently changing technology such as a COVID-19 chatbot can help in the pandemic response.

It's important to design innovation into care ecosystems and then ensure sustained adoption, says David Champeaux, chief growth officer at Cherish Health and a member of the HIMSS UK Advisory Council.

Infermedica CEO Piotr Orzechowski discusses how the increased adoption of technology such as telemedicine is helping to open up innovation opportunities.

Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, says technology must be used to improve healthcare for the whole world, rather than just the richest 10%.

Although progress has been made in terms of empowering patients at an organizational level, patient speaker and activist Theo Sergiou says there is room for improvement at an institutional level.

Digital health futurist Shafi Ahmed says since COVID-19, users across the globe have been the "change makers" in ensuring that healthcare delivery is more equitable and accessible.

CEO Prof. Eugene Kandel says it's relatively easy to collect needs and bring them together once the ecosystem is connected in a single depository.

Brigham Digital Innovation Hub's Santosh Mohan and Dr. Mark Zhang discuss how the team sprang into action to address the growing needs of COVID-19 care and how the urgency of finding solutions to the coronavirus is accelerating innovations.

Dr. Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer of Israel's Clalit Research Institute, discusses the deployment of predictive, proactive and preventive digital care across a large population.