Connected Health

For its 13th annual National Health IT Week, which kicks off today and runs through Sept.

HIMSS Executive Director of Health Innovation Kerry Amato discusses the value of Health 2.0, the Personal Connected Health Alliance and other initiatives whose goal is to make leading-edge technology work for patients.

The benefit of the shared care plan is that a patient’s care plans will be consistent if they move within the region, and new clinicians involved in that patient’s care can view and edit the plans.

MITRE Lead Clinical Informaticist Sharon Sebastian discusses efforts to share clinical decision support across domains.

Audacious Inquiry President Scott Afzal says his company created an encounter notification service for physicians that has become the starting point for using triggered events for a health information exchange.

The results of a new J.D. Power survey suggest that, for the patients standing to gain the most from telehealth, services need to be positioned and explained as a way to reduce costs while maintaining a high level of care.

Transparency with fair data usage is being explored in Finland, while the country's general outlook is that data should be shared and used to improve services where possible, says Jaana Sinipuro, project director at Sitra.

The digital health pioneer, who currently serves as vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare, will start a one-year term as president of the ATA next spring.

Steve Wretling, HIMSS CTIO, says sometimes technologies can be a hindrance if personal impact and realistic processes aren’t taken into account.

American Telemedicine Association's "State of the States Report" finds progress, but still sees strategies for states to be incentivized to adopt pro-telehealth policies.