Accountable Care

(Sponsored) Blockchain has huge potential to ensure different parties work together and collaborate to deliver high-quality care for patients by providing the optimum platforms for care providers, says Ali Rizwan, product manager for Solve.care.

(Sponsored) The AMA's award-winning tools help alleviate the problem of physician burnout, improving clinical workflows and removing patient-care barriers, says Laurie McGraw, SVP of Health Solutions at the AMA.

Anyi Chen, CIO, Staten Island Performing Provider System outlines the challenges of behavioral health data sharing and maximizing the use of real-time data to follow patients within the framework of a value-based care model.

Michael Dulin, director for the Academy of Population Health at the University of North Carolina, says the time is now to integrate patient data to develop a comprehensive view of factors that influence outcomes.

Jordi Piera Jimenez, chief information and R&D officer at Badalona Serveis Assistencials in Spain, says good systems and shared frameworks are important, but having government policy drive integration is key.

If value-based care is to take shape, it’s critical that providers actively engage with patients to help them better understand the true cost of care.

A patient survey helped a seriously ill patient with a secondary complication that would have otherwise gone undetected.

Adnan Hamid, Assistant CIO at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, discusses the organization's areas of focus for health IT in 2017 including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, interoperability and more.

Eight in 10 U.S. patients would welcome some aspect of virtual healthcare, but only 1 in 5 providers is meeting that need.