Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

The Healthstory Project: Harmony with Clinical Narrative/Structured Data in the EHR

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Conventional wisdom dictates that documents are bad and discrete data is good. But the Healthstory project offers a bridge between free-flowing narrative clinical documentation and semantically interoperable data.

Semantic Interoperability: Creating a Common Language to Transform Care

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Creating a common problem list from diverse EMRs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center raised challenges despite common terminology. The presenters will describe their solution to these challenges, which impact semantic interoperability.

Interoperability in the Perioperative Environment

Wednesday, March 3, 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM

Connecting with Community Practices: Benefiting from the Best of Both Worlds

Tuesday, March 2, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMThis session will seek to define the elements of an effective case that can be made for ROI and cost-benefit analyses for hospitals to connect to ambulatory EMRs; describe how hospitals can improve their community physician affinity; and describe internal IT resource requirements and implementation lessons.

Healthcare Interoperability: Achieving Meaningful Use and Beyond!

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM OhioHealth is transforming care delivery and preparing for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding with an interoperable healthcare platform that simplifies access to care, facilitates coordination of care, optimizes treatment and improves satisfaction.

Interoperability and the Meaningful Use Exchange

Monday, March 1, 3:45 PM - 4:10 PM

Interoperability and Public Health: CDC, Making the Connection with EHRs

Monday, March 1, 12:45 PM - 1:10 PM Co-sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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