Digital Health
Digital health is revolutionizing healthcare by integrating technology with medical services to deliver more efficient, personalized, and accessible care. Read our Digital Health special issue to know how digital health solutions such as telemedicine, mobile health (mHealth), wearable devices, and AI-powered analytics are transforming the healthcare landscape. These innovations are enhancing patient outcomes, streamlining workflows, and enabling remote monitoring and diagnosis.
Discover how digital health is empowering patients, improving care coordination, and making healthcare delivery more data-driven, cost-effective, and responsive to the needs of both patients and providers.
Innovation on the Front Lines: Change Management for Successful Digital Health Implementation
By Evan D. Collins MD, MBA, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chief of the Hand & Upper Extremity Center, Houston Methodist As the population ages, the imbalance between the demand for care and providers of care will continue to fuel the need ...
What is digital surgery, and how can it help transform your hospital?
By Robin Selwitz, Director of Technology and Hospital Systems Projects, Massachusetts Department of Public Health We hear about digital health everywhere, from remote patient monitoring (RPM) to telehealth and everything in between. With promises to have technology improve overall outcomes ...
Digital transformation through enterprise decision management with design thinking
By Anand Ramaswamy, Senior Director - Technical Architecture (Digital), Hospital for Special Surgery While scheduling a flu shot appointment, I encountered a workflow issue highlighting several drawbacks and drop-offs. After receiving a text notification regarding my appointment, I found no ...
The Future of Population Health in a Digital World
By Saad Chaudhry, CIO, Luminis Health The recent pandemic years have changed many aspects of healthcare, from how it is delivered to how it is paid for and subsidized. With limitations on in-person interaction and extreme staffing shortages, many aspects ...
Importance of Interoperability in the Digital Era of Healthcare
By Nasim Rezanejad, MD, MS, Physician Solutions Analyst III, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Interoperability sits behind the scenes making sure that different systems can talk to each other and exchange data. It makes sure ...
The Real-time Digital Health System: Automation for Care Operations
By Deborah Gash, SVP Chief Digital Officer, Saint Luke’s Health System As a 16-hospital, an integrated health system serving 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas, Saint Luke’s Health System has faced challenges: increased demand for care, higher patient acuity, and ...
The Journey to Digital Transformation
By Jason Wood, MBA, MS, CIO, EvergreenHealth The impact of technology has empowered individuals to expect a seamless, consumer-focused experience across every aspect of their lives. Being able to order something to your doorstep, or manage your finances with a ...
Digital Tools: At A Pivotal Point
By Chris Grasso, CIO, Fenway Community Health Health Information Technology (HIT) became a lifeline during COVID by allowing health care organizations across the United States to utilize digital tools to engage patients and provide care. Historically, many health care providers ...
Technology in Healthcare – Early start
By Emily Lafeir, Sr. Director of Innovation and Automation, Geisinger The healthcare industry is at the forefront of digital innovation and evolution. Advancing digital technology adoption has the potential to improve the health care consumer and patient experience and also ...
Let’s give patients what they deserve, the best experience!
By Scott Arnold, EVP & CIO, Tampa General Hospital There is no shortage of investments being made to create, optimize and fortify the “digital front door” at healthcare organizations. Consumer expectations are increasing to a point that loyalty to a ...
The Digital Strategy Towards Addressing Social Determinants of Health
By Priya Radhakrishnan, MD, FACP, Chief Academic Officer and VP Health Equity, HonorHealth Health and health care inequities: systematic, measurable, and avoidable differences in health-related outcomes between populations are increasing in the United States. Access to healthy food, reliable transportation, ...
Digital Health, the Triple Aim and Healthcare Transformation
By Bashir Agboola, VP & CTO, Hospital for Special Surgery The healthcare sector represents a large part of the global economy and is the fastest-growing sector in many countries. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, healthcare spending as a percentage ...
The Next Digital Revolution: Transforming the Future of Health Care Delivery
By Jeremy Cauwels, MD, chief physician, Sanford Health Sanford Health plans to use cutting-edge technologies to provide more care options for patients and families living in rural and underserved parts of the Midwest. The time has come for the digital-access ...
Procedural Patient Experience: Leveraging Robust Digital Platform to Improve Patient Digital Experience
By Nader Mherabi, Chief Digital & Information Officer, EVP and Vice Dean, NYU Langone Health and Joseph Zuckerman, MD, Chair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Health At NYU Langone Health, we perform over 100,000 elective surgeries annually across our ...
Convenience and Choice Critical for Digital Health Strategy
What does your digital front door say about your organization? By Tim Schoener, CHCIO, MBA, CIO, UPMC in Central and North Central Pa As expected, the 2021 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) CIO Fall Forum in San Diego ...
A Crisis of Confidence in Healthcare and Digital Health’s Response
By Dr.Lauren Vivian, CHIO, Pacific Medical Group COVID-19 shed light on many health disparities and inequities within the U.S healthcare system. While many of those shortcomings were discussed at length before the pandemic, analysts predicted that a health crisis such ...
Digital Transformation – We put in an EHR and stabilized it, what now?
By Dr. Neal Chawla, CMIO, WakeMed Health & Hospitals A common thread among health systems and physician practices, particularly over the last 10 years, was the introduction and adoption of electronic health records. In most cases, it took a year ...
Digitalizing Healthcare Processes
By Charleeda Redman, VP Strategy Integration, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia When asked to share my professional journey, I frequently state: “Regardless of my title, I am a clinical informaticist who looks for opportunities to apply technology to support the healthcare ...
Bringing a Human Touch to Evolving Digital Health Care
By Mark Kandrysawtz, VP & Chief Innovation Officer, WellSpan Health Technology permeates every aspect of health care, from the equipment used in surgery to the way physicians take notes during a patient visit. But we now have entered an era ...
Digital Pathology: A Case of Enterprise Imaging and Integrated Diagnosis
By Inderpal Kohli, AVP IT Clinical Applications and Training, Hospital for Special Surgery The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of healthcare both for clinicians and patients, including in the area of clinical imaging. There is, however, one set ...