Health IT innovation: You need a strategy

An unsuccessful pilot is nobody's first choice, but it gives organizations a chance to address their shortcomings and improve their next attempt.

From teaming up with startups to creating provider spinouts, hospitals are looking at how innovation can help manage the bottom line. 

The ingredients of Finland's growing startup ecosystem include public-private partnerships, data research availability and a little bit of sisu. 

Internal projects yielding clear value can sway top-level decision makers, healthcare analytics experts speaking at today's HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare conference said.

Patients and providers alike are interested in, and see major benefits from, increased access to digital health records, according to a new report from Royal Philips.

At BIO 2019, Sanofi's chief medical and digital officer advised fellow pharma leaders on embracing new technologies and preparing for the challenges they'll bring.

In June, MobiHealthNews and HealthcareITNews will look at the groundwork that needs to be laid for innovation to take place.

A panel of innovators joined Rucker to examine the news and to invite comments in the last few days.

Digital founders Saba Alzabin and Eirini Rapti speak to MobiHealthNews about how women’s health technology has evolved beyond fertility tracking apps.

Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, announced in April that it had received Civil Aviation Safety Authority approval to fly drones over built-up areas in Canberra, Australia.

This morning MassBio hosted a panel on the use cases for the technology in clinical trials and beyond. 

At the Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Summit, representatives from the two health systems explain how listening to patients inspired care coordination tools, health finance platforms and a patient scheduler. 

Clifford Goldsmith, chief medical officer and national director of US providers at Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, discusses best practice for creating tools that engage patients and providers. 

Health insurance companies have struggled to keep pace with global digitisation, but if they are to compete with an advancing battalion of disruptors, they need to mobilise coherent digital strategies now – and take the lead in building a new digital ecosystem.

Cleveland Clinic's chief experience officer and chief nursing officer discuss the potential and challenges of digital tools in patient care.