Healthcare

The Connected Health Conference is one of the leading digital health events in the US market. The theme of the 2017 conference was: “The Connected Life Journey: Shaping Health and Wellness for Every Generation.” The goal was to place less emphasis on the bells and whistles of technology while focusing more on the human element of connected heal...

Digital health brings a diverse range of growth opportunities for vendors across the value chain. As the space has evolved, it has experienced a multitude of small successes and stellar failures, yet funding continues to flood in. Major entries into the industry continue from the broader vendor environment, underlining the importance of health in e...

The healthcare industry is growing rapidly and moving toward data-based healthcare services and offerings. The importance of good health data interoperability is becoming prominent. Each country in Southeast Asia (SEA) drives interoperability based on the current state of healthcare digitalization and the complexity of the healthcare system. Sing...

Physicians are neck-deep in challenges, beginning from managing increased consumerism on one end to interpreting complex regulatory requirements on the other. The most recent, bipartisan-backed, Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), marks the onset of delivery and payment reforms under...

The annual HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) conference is the key event for the health IT industry, providing a comprehensive overview of the state of the market from the perspective of various stakeholders, including health IT vendors, healthcare payers and providers, and government regulators. The topics and tone of the HIMS...

Patient engagement is a digitally supported (tool, application, or portal) procedure that primarily serves to allow patients to communicate with their healthcare providers around various financial, administrative, and clinical issues for the accomplishment of informed and competent healthcare decisions. Examples of IT used for patient engagement i...

A few telehealth conferences have been held in Malaysia since 1997, but ‘The First Telemedicine Conference 2015’ was a notable event where multiple stakeholders, vendors, academia and healthcare providers gathered to discuss the initial steps for building an ecosystem for telemedicine. The conference held in August 2015 at Sunway Medical Centre...

The 13th annual Partners Connected Health Symposium was held at the Boston Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center in October 2016. The key theme of the event was “Digital technology that cares. Bringing the human element to life.” The following piece presents analyst highlights, views, and major observed themes in digital health as well as company-...