COVID-19
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.
Dr. Deborah Maufi, chief medical officer at Babymoon Care, discusses how to tackle the inequalities in maternal health.
The NHS app will be used to demonstrate COVID-19 vaccination status
Christine Czerniak, technical officer of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, says variants of COVID-19 highlight the need for genomic surveillance and sequencing as well as the importance of collaboration in the fight against the coronavirus.
The integration with the Dubai Health Authority reportedly makes the emirate one of the first cities in the world to implement full digital verification of traveller COVID-19 medical records.
The program pairs up celebrities and health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci to talk about COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
HIMSS21 Europe
Professor Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer of Clalit Health Services, says Israel has found both innovation and data instrumental in tackling COVID-19 challenges and improving patient outcomes.
Penn State Health's Cletis Earle talks about how the health system has managed population health during the pandemic with help from EHR tweaks, telehealth, data sharing via CommonWell and more.
Empathetics founder and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. Helen Riess speaks with Frank Cutitta, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 for 100 days, about "institutionalized loneliness" and other emotional aftereffects of the pandemic.
The sterilisation method has been used in hospitals and laboratories for more than 50 years.