The Vaccine Credential Initiative is all about patients being able to share proof of their vaccination. The focus of the initiative is giving patients control and maintaining their privacy, which I'm a big advocate of. We’ll be creating smart health cards which will have a QR code that is readable by other systems. So patients can instantly communicate their vaccination status. It’s a really admirable initiative.

Sean Bina, Epic

We think about products with something we call the golden thread which is, products don't stand alone anymore. You can't just run off and instantiate a video visit without engaging all of the other products. You’ve had the visit. Now what? How does the data flow? How does the patient experience flow? What about patient automation messaging?

Nancy Ham, WebPT

A lot of the manufacturers don't have a process for updating software or technology within the medical device itself. The other challenge is there's just so many. At Cook Children's we have 20,000 medical devices on our network. If you can imagine trying to manage, keep up and ensure that they're all at the right software code levels or even just still in good functioning order. Something of that magnitude is really hard for an organization to manage when you don't have good tools to do that. So pile the security risk on with the fact that there's so many tools or devices out there today, you really kind of create this perfect storm of issues that need to be addressed in healthcare.

Theresa Meadows, Cook Children's