(BUSINESS WIRE)–Xealth, the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced that CEO Mike McSherry is speaking at the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in partnership with leading healthcare organizations, highlighting ways digital health has enhanced care-centered objectives. HIMSS21 will be held both in-person and virtual, August 9-13, with the theme “Be the Change.”
HIMSS describes this event as the “can’t-miss health information and technology event of the year, where professionals throughout the global health ecosystem connect for education, innovation and collaboration.” The sessions below demonstrate how digital resources can be, and have been, implemented in ways that enhance care delivery across several specialty areas.
Details on the Sessions:
Digital Driving Patient Experience in Women’s Health
UPMC’s Dr. Glenn Updike, MMM, Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, Women’s Health Service Line and MyUPMC & Beth Quinn, MSN, RNC- MNN, Director of Women’s Health Operations, UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital
Wednesday, August 11, 11:30AM – 12:30PMEnd-of-Life Care: Helping Patients Make Tough Decisions
Institute for Human Caring at Providence
Mike McSherry, CEO, Xealth
Wednesday, August 11, 1:00PM – 2:00PMImproving Mental Health with Digital Tools
Dr. Bradley Crotty, FACP, MPH, Chief Digital Engagement Officer and Internist, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network – Inception Health & Mike McSherry, CEO, Xealth
Thursday, August 12, 11:30AM – 12:30PMRemote Monitoring for Rapid Pandemic Response
Sherene Schlegel, Executive Director, Clinical Operations, Providence & Mike McSherry, CEO, Xealth
Friday, August 13, 10:30AM – 11:30AM
“There is now general acceptance of the value digital innovations can bring to healthcare,” said Mike McSherry, CEO and co-founder of Xealth. “The conversation is now about how we can move even faster to accelerate the benefits to patients, providers and the organization. We have the honor of working with health systems that are at the forefront of digital transformation. It is a privilege and humbling to share the lessons and best practices that have been learned along the way.”
About Xealth
Xealth scales digital health programs, enabling clinicians to integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients to drive engagement and utilization. Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients directly from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the patient’s email or patient portal, and then monitor activity. Xealth spun out of Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) in 2017, and investors include Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic, MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Cerner, McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, and ResMed as well as Providence Ventures, UPMC and the Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network.
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