Welcome to Healthcare World

Welcome to the HIMSS23 edition of Healthcare World. It’s always exciting to visit a new city and the Healthcare World team are on site in Chicago with a delegation of British and European companies looking to highlight their innovations and services to a wide audience. You’ll also catch our MD Steve Gardner and Operations Director Ritu Chopra there, so keep an eye out for them and free to ask them about the exciting work Healthcare World and our partners are doing at HIMMS and beyond, and how you could get involved.

We have a wide variety of o erings for you in the pages of this magazine. Our new Insight section features dynamic thought leaders such as Daniel Kra MD, a physician-scientist who presents the future of digital healthcare in the shape of the metaverse, or medaverse as it’s now being dubbed. There’s HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf on the changing face of healthcare as it becomes fully digital, and Dr Hinda Daggag from SEHA, the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, on the role of genomics in the new healthcare age.

It’s becoming clear that patients and global citizens are now on board with the idea of digital healthcare. The more they can see the benefits, the more they will be willing to donate or share their data to advance medicine and healthcare. Mott MacDonald’s Digital Lead Abhi Shekar comments on this as he

Sarah Cartledge Group Editor

outlines how digital twins are helping hospitals and care centres deliver better and more joined-up care with patient wellbeing at the centre.

Former policeman Phil Anderton has broken new ground with ADHD 360, treating more than 2,000 patients each month online to help them with the debilitating and sometimes criminal side-e ects of ADHD. Similarly, HUMA is helping literally thousands of people manage their hypertension through their digital platform by monitoring them and raising the alarm if their symptoms suddenly become severe.

So we’re all becoming more used to self-care –whether it’s via wearables or apps. We are learning to monitor ourselves and discover our normal. Now it’s up to healthcare systems to respond in a comprehensive manner so this public willingness to participate in the new era of healthcare isn’t wasted. This is where HIMSS comes in. Each visitor or exhibitor understands how they can contribute to this new landscape and events such as this one enable new connections, ideas and innovations to be given air. We’ve all missed meeting our peers and colleagues across the world, and now that we can travel we can reap the benefits.

And enjoy the magazine! If you have any comments, do let me know – sarah@healthcareworld.com. I look forward to covering the latest stories in our next issue so do get in touch with me or the Healthcare World team either onsite or via email.