innovation

Hospitals look to clinicians in the field for innovation ideas.

Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities, says that clinicians can be inventors and embrace change by ensuring the patient voice remains prominent when developing innovative strategies at a leadership level.

Claus Duedal Pedersen, Chief Innovation Officer for the Centre for Innovative Medical Technology at the Odense University Hospital in Denmark, talks about shortening the road from academic research to the practical world of the healthcare system.

Nick Dougherty, managing director of MassChallenge HealthTech, is energized by all the pilots converting to broader implementation and is working on an assessment review to help innovators get over the security hurdles.

ONC Senior Innovation Strategist Stephen Konya discusses the Health and Human Services road show visiting American cities to give digital health upstarts and entrepreneurs better access to federal agencies. The next HHS Startup Day is slated for Nov. 8.

Startups are having the biggest impact working on technology that disrupts access, data gathering, monitoring and care interventions to help patients – as well as alleviate clinician burnout – says cofounder and EVP of Health 2.0 Indu Sabaiya.

Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.

Kamal Obbad, Co-founder and CEO of Nebula Genomics, is working to help consumers understand consent and the risks to consider before giving someone access to their data based on a blockchain model.  Nebula Genomics was the winner of the 2018 Health 2.0 Launch! contest.