COVID-19

COVID-19 is accenting the need for digital transformation in tackling complex healthcare challenges, so organizations are accelerating their implementation, says Alexander Ryan, Healthcare Alliances and Net New Sales Manager, EMEA, at Hyland.

Dr. Bridget Duffy, former chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic and CMO at Vocera, discusses burnout during the pandemic, protecting the safety of the healthcare workforce, and how technology can help and hurt.

Yale New Haven Health Services Medical Director Dr. Pam Hoffman discusses how telehealth became a service that required a "clinical champion" to a necessary part of the health system's offerings.

COVID-19 is presenting challenges and opportunities for real-world data generation surrounding scale, privacy and ethics, claims Nigel Hughes, the scientific director RWD/RWE at Janssen Research and Development.

The tech company said that it will be pulling its new case and trend data from sources such as Johns Hopkins, The New York Times and Wikipedia.

HBKiCare is being launched by Dubai’s Hamad Bin Khalifa Department of Projects (HBK DOP) and the Ramat Gan-headquarted healthcare IoT software developer, Sure Universal. 

Dr. Eric J. Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses maintaining rigorous editorial and medical standards while also exploring new ideas and concepts in a time when understanding of COVID-19 is changing by the day.

The Deloitte Health Tech Catalyst innovation hub will connect technology companies and healthcare providers to accelerate digital innovation.

Matthew Gould, CEO of NHSx, says metrics about bed capacity, patient condition and shortages helped organize the health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contact tracing apps, symptom checkers and other data-driven tools provide tangible benefits, but experts say that more can be done to educate individuals on what information they collect and how it's handled.