John Halamka, MD, MS, International Healthcare Innovation Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Overview of Recording

A renewed focus on patient-centered care, and changes in reimbursement—such as value-based purchasing and high cost deductible plans—are coming together to change how health care is delivered. This short presentation explores how emerging digital health and analytic tools are helping stakeholders across health care meet these challenges.

Topics include:

  • Rapidly implementing telecare including internet of things monitoring in the home
  • Adopting cloud-hosted subscription services to accelerate innovation
  • Using the data of the past to inform patient care of the future via machine learning tools

About the Presenter

John D. Halamka, MD, MS is the International Healthcare Innovation Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN); CEO of MA-SHARE (the Regional Health Information Organization); Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing Emergency Physician.