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There are new ways data and technology application can improve the future of care, says HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling.

A new study published in JMIR found that data from the devices could help identify college students living with loneliness. 

Liz Ashall-Payne, co-founder and CEO of ORCHA, discusses the push to use health data to support care and improve remote monitoring.

The value of blockchain in healthcare goes beyond data ownership, access and control, as well as consent management, says Mirko De Maldè, president at Government Blockchain Association Italy.

The organization reports it has completed retrospective testing and is in the process of prospective testing. 

Not only can augmented reality and virtual reality help patients better understand their condition, but the technologies can help train residents in different approaches to surgery, says Tristan van Doormaal, a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands.

The best innovations come from resilience when working to solve problems, says HIMSS CTIO Steve Wretling.

CEO and President Dr. Corey McCann said that Somryst, a digital treatment for chronic insomnia and depression, is the first software as a medical device product to be submitted through the regulator's pilot pathway. 

Salesforce Health Cloud can help providers aggregate, analyze and make actionable the data providers need to address social determinants of health, says Dr. Joshua Newman, the company’s chief medical officer.

John Kansky, president and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, says state and regional HIEs have the deep experience necessary to boost interoperability.