Patient Access

Grace Cordovano, cofounder of Unblock Health and a 2024 Changemaker Award recipient, talks about helping patients access and understand their records, as well as the Cancer X initiative, which aims to increase care access and affordability.

Leveraging AI in virtual nursing can elevate and transform the care experience to advance documentation automation while improving personalized, bedside care, says Dr. Stephanie Lahr, president of healthcare AI technology company Artisight.  

Michael Brandofino, president and COO of Caregility, discusses how Caregility deploys sensors, a specially designed audio system and AI within hospital rooms to help remote nurses observe patients and reduce onsite nurses' workload.

Cleveland Clinic ACO's Dr. Jessica Hohman and Cleveland Clinic Florida's Dr. Richard Rothman discuss their upcoming HIMSS24 session on how the hospital system created and evolved its scalable home-based acute and post-acute care models.  

Health and homelessness cannot be fixed until the continuum of care around a person is solved, said Gabriel Seidman, director of policy at Ellison Institute of Technology. Tracking and responding using data is vital at government levels.  

Dr. Michael Ross, CMIO of Northern Light Health, highlights his upcoming HIMSS24 session on integrating telehealth, the health system's partnership with Optum and its priorities moving into 2024, including its support of Oracle Health.  

Ankit Gupta, Bicycle Health CEO and founder, discusses how the company helps formerly incarcerated individuals access buprenorphine monthly injections for opioid use disorder via the Federal Bureau of Prisons and residential reentry centers.  

The offering will give patients with diabetes, migraines and obesity access to care providers and home delivery of Lilly medications via third-party vendors.

Brian Esterly, CEO of TimeDoc Health, discusses health IT's role in bringing together patients and care teams and facilitating self-care management, particularly for patients with chronic conditions in healthcare deserts.  

Steven Ullman, the University of Miami's director at the Center for Health Management and Policy, discusses telehealth use during and following the pandemic, why patient and provider satisfaction varies, and policy predictions for 2024.