Patient Engagement
John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital, discusses the benefits, challenges and evolution with voice technologies amid the growing number of apps and interest from major companies and health systems today.
Telehealth should prove valuable to rural and small city-dwelling patients who have to travel to get to the healthcare they need, says Wael A. Kabli, Cura CEO.
Neck-and-neck, the two rideshare companies are making big moves to assert themselves in the space, hiring health IT talent as providers and other vendors continue to partner.
The 22-year-old privacy law should be updated for a mobile tech-centric and data-driven world, the information management and medical informatics groups said.
Since opening its doors to the first patients in September this year, the New Children’s Hospital in Helsinki, Finland is using a unique combination of art and play, recognised as key elements for a “healing environment", and the latest technologies available to support the children that it provides services for and their parents.
With a total budget of €183m, €40m from the state of Finland, another €40m from the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa, and €38m raised by a Foundation created for the new facility, the hospital is cultivating a culture of innovation – and the HIMSS Insights team went to find out how.
In an interview published in the first issue of the new global Insights eBook series, Professor Pekka Lahdenne, Head of Digital and Innovative Services at the hospital, who specialises in Paediatrics, explained that an “efficient ICT infrastructure was a priority for future development of a modern hospital”.
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“A lot of effort was invested in ensuring that the ICT platform would provide capabilities for future developments,” Professor Lahdenne said.
The full interview can be read here. A site visit at the hospital will be organised during the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European conference taking place in Helsinki, Finland, on 11-13 June.
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Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities, says that providing patients with control of their data is essential and that smartphones are an indispensable tool for empowering the patient.
Dr. Manish Kohli, HIMSS Enterprise Board Chair, discusses physician burn-out and delivering insights for better clinical decision making, adding that success will come when the technology becomes invisible while patients are in front of doctors and nurses.
(Sponsored) Ali Slimani, Cerner's general manager of strategic partnerships for Middle East sales, says Cerner is aligned with IHI's "Quadruple Aim," which includes improving patient and clinician experience well as lowering overall cost of care.