Innovation: Health Technology and Systems

HBHI convened supply chain scholars and industry leaders to discuss how to prevent supply chain interruptions from occurring when the next pandemic invariably arrives.

A symposium co-hosted by HBHI and the Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer's Disease and Services Center covers the ramifications of the approval of controversial Alzheimer's Disease drug Aduhelm for patients enrolled in approved clinical trials.

For many years, there has been a collective excitement about using artificial intelligence in healthcare delivery. Still, AI technology is often talked about as if it is science fiction and the future of healthcare. Despite the FDA's approval of more than 300 medical AI systems by June 2021, many experts question if AI is a reality in the medical arena, or if it remains far in the future—and how to overcome the obstacles to adopting the new technologies?

Around 150 million Americans rely on employers for access to health care. Can the companies who employ them help foster an affordable system that improves our health and doesn't drive us crazy in the process?

As the health of Americans gets worse, with chronic disease and physical and mental illnesses on the rise, do corporations have a role to play in addressing the health crisis?

In 2020, HBHI awarded a pilot grant to Jodi Segal, MD, MPH, a HBHI Leadership Committee member and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health to understand what clinicians and patients consider to be appropriate use of telemedicine in primary care to inform future development of a framework that should be valuable to diverse stakeholders.

HBHI pilot study publication on a proposed framework for the appropriate use of telemedicine in primary care

HBHI pilot study publication on interview findings of what clinicians and patients consider to be appropriate use of telemedicine in primary care

Artificial intelligence on call: The physician’s decision of whether to use AI in clinical practice