Telehealth and EHRs: Preparing for & Managing through the Data Tsunami

For years, telehealth promised the future of healthcare -- more convenience and an enhanced experience for patients and better scale for providers. But between governmental regulatory hurdles and legacy culture issues, most providers were never able to get their telehealth pilots off the ground. Due to the COVID pandemic, a majority of providers have rushed to offer telehealth solutions. While these solutions are offering providers and patient’s health services, most providers are not yet ready to manage the deluge of data these new services are bringing to their EHR services.

This webinar promises to look at the new challenges posed by this rapid adoption of telehealth, from the need for better data storage and data management to managing telehealth services during COVID and preparing for telehealth in the world after the pandemic.

Jonah Comstock

Director of Content Development & EiC
HIMSS Media

Bio info: Jonah Comstock is the Editor of MobiHealthNews where he oversees all editorial content and manages the news team. An...

Jonah Comstock is the Editor of MobiHealthNews where he oversees all editorial content and manages the news team. An alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and The College of Wooster, Jonah has previously written for Psychology Today and the Columbia Journalism Review. He's also a Dow Jones Copy Editing Fellow and has worked on the copy desks at Newsday and the Tampa Bay Times. He worked on the weekly radio show Uptown Radio at Columbia and brought that expertise to MobiHealthNews to help start the MobiHealthNews Podcast. Jonah works out of MobiHealthNews HQ in Cambridge, MA. He has spoken at HIMSS' mHealth Summit and served as a judge for the GSMA Global Mobile Awards. Reach him at jonah.comstock@himssmedia.com or on Twitter @JonahComstock.

Robert Havasy

Sr. Director Connected Health, MD, PCHA
HIMSS

Bio info: Robert Havasy is a Senior Director in HIMSS’ Technology & Innovation group, and the Managing Director of the...

Robert Havasy is a Senior Director in HIMSS’ Technology & Innovation group, and the Managing Director of the Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance). In this role, he focuses on issues around connected health including remote patient monitoring, telemedicine, patient engagement, shared decision-making, consumerization, and interoperability. In 2018 Rob served on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s US Core Data for Interoperability Task Force. Prior to joining HIMSS and the PCHAlliance, Mr. Havasy was the Corporate Team Lead for Product and Technology Development at the Center for Connected Health (CCH), part of the Mass General-Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare) System in Boston, Massachusetts. At CCH Mr. Havasy lead the team that integrated the Center’s technology with Partners’ enterprise clinical systems. Major achievements of the Center include connecting remote patient monitoring data to Partners’ electronic medical record (EMR) system, the integration of consumer activity monitoring data with the EMR, and a new platform for acquiring and integrating Patient Reported Outcome Measures data into clinical practice.Prior to joining CCH, Mr. Havasy held a variety of positions over 10 years in Sales, Marketing, and Services with Enterasys Networks (now part of Extreme Networks), culminating as Service Operations Manager where he had responsibility for Maintenance and Professional Services offerings and for driving global service revenues of over $100 million annually.Mr. Havasy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from Keene State College and an M.S. in Health and Medical Informatics from Brandeis University.