Patient Engagement

To effectively share data with patients, hospitals and health systems must build a tech foundation centered on interoperability, driven by rigorous data standardization and secure exchanges – and the adoption of HL7's FHIR.

Dr. Tejaswi Kompala, head of cardiometabolic clinical strategy at Teladoc Health, says too many people are overburdened by the needs associated with managing their chronic conditions – but that artificial intelligence could help in several ways.

Compromised by a phishing email, the health system says some employee and patient personal information may have been impacted.

A week of discussion spearheaded by the patient advocate group aims to highlight the risks of harm from unauthorized access to healthcare information over the internet. There should be "no aggregation without representation," its leaders say.

Healthcare providers can take advantage of seniors' growing trust in digital health tools, empowering older adults to make sense of a complex healthcare landscape, says the CEO of one care navigation platform for Medicare beneficiaries.

Sutter Health in California has collaborated with PointClickCare's ED Optimization to track patients who travel between ERs.

Hospitals could enhance accessibility by investing in alternative sites of care and virtual visits, report says.

For one clinic with Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation, using this technology has promoted better functional outcomes, patient compliance and increased attendance rates. Gross revenue per visit is up 4.3%.

Also, the Department of Health and Aged Care seeks to automate the creation of monthly care statements in residential aged care homes.

The chair of clinical pharmacy practice details how the organization got, for example, racial/ethnic minorities receiving chemotherapy two times higher likelihood in reporting pain compared with non-Hispanic whites.