Patient Access

HIMSS and a number of countries have created a to-do list for improving access and health equity, says Tom Leary, SVP and head of government relations at HIMSS.

EndeavorRx gives children with ADHD another treatment option to improve attention, notes Scott Kollins, chief medical officer at Akili Interactive.

Melanie Rainer, Director of HHS' Office for Civil Rights, shares how OCR helps providers resume compliance by the August deadline under HIPAA rules when they deliver telehealth services.

A.C. Locklear, federal relations director for the National Indian Health Board, is looking to other groups with similar issues for new and innovative solutions to tribal health issues.

Telemedicine and digital health expert Dr. Laura Purdy shares how interoperability in virtual care and digital health technologies can improve care delivery for patients and providers, and decrease disparities in health equity.

Early discharge programs address staffing shortages and capacity concerns by observing patients virtually in the comfort of their homes, states Kuldeep Singh Rajput, founder and CEO of Biofourmis.

Rather than managing things after they break, Cherish CEO Sumit Nagpal discusses migrating the healthcare economy to preventative care to assure health.

Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare, talks about how virtual providers free up clinicians' time by handling "triple R" – routine, repeatable and rules-based – care visits that can occupy more than 50% of a physician's day.

Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results, describes her work with Unblock Health, a digital platform that streamlines the process of requesting medical records and corrections to medical records for patients.

Native Americans' life expectancy is five years lower than the U.S. average. Mitchell Thornbrugh, CIO of the Indian Health Service, talks about the need for a single interoperable medical record to support Native communities’ health equity.