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By  Trevor Dermody 02:47 pm March 13, 2024
ORLANDO – During a fireside chat style discussion at HIMSS24 on Wednesday, "Achieving Equity through Coordinated Healthcare," experts discussed how exchanging health information can bridge gaps in health equity and the innovations transforming healthcare access.  Michael Jackson, VP and global head of industries at DocuSign. moderated a discussion with Luis Belen, CEO of the National Health IT...
Juan Santos, SVP of brand experience and innovation at the Tavistock Group and innovator in Orlando's planned community Lake Nona
By  Jessica Hagen 12:06 pm March 13, 2024
ORLANDO – Juan Santos, SVP of brand experience and innovation at the Tavistock Group and innovator in Orlando's planned community Lake Nona, kicked off the Venture Connect Program at HIMSS24. "If you read about Lake Nona, it has been called Medical City by the media," Santos said. "The reason for this is that at the core of Lake Nona, at the base of who we are, we have a very solid healthcare...
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By  Trevor Dermody 01:13 pm March 12, 2024
ORLANDO – At HIMSS24, Georgia Health Information Network discussed its Georgia Unity platform, a health information exchange network developed with local community partners, created due to the need to understand total health in Georgia’s rural communities.  Dr. Denise Hines, executive director at Georgia Health Information Network, and Shirelle King, program manager at Georgia Health Information...
By  Dave Muoio 03:17 am September 17, 2019
Following a session of live pitch presentations and evaluations, judges have awarded Ooney and Social Impact AI Lab — New York with the top prizes in two healthcare innovation competitions focused on, respectively, home/community care and social determinants of health. The innovation contests are part of an annual event held here at the Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, and are conducted in...
By  Dave Muoio 03:31 pm August 28, 2019
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Catalyst @ Health 2.0 have named the finalists for two ongoing pitch competitions, one focused on the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the other on home and community-based care. Each competition’s three finalists will be demoing their digital approaches for judges and audience members at next month’s Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, with...
By  Jonah Comstock 06:43 am October 16, 2014
Data for Health co-chairs Dr. Ivor Horn and David Ross. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has begun an initiative to explore how health data can best serve not just individuals, but communities. The new initiative, called Data for Health, will be led by an advisory committee co-chaired by David Ross, director of the Public Health Informatics Institute, and Dr. Ivor Horn, medical director of...