Connected Health
HIMSS24 Europe
Digital transformation of healthcare not only requires investments in digital technology, but also in digital health literacy. This must be coordinated across three critical levels: individual, institutional and policy-making.
Remote Patient Monitoring
Only 0.6% of remote encounters managed by the health system's remote patient monitoring vendor's caregivers escalate to Providence clinicians. Hypertension RPM patients saw a 12.55% reduction in systolic blood pressure by week 12.
Andrew Schultz, PatientPoint chief product and strategy officer, shows how the technology works as a communication hub between the waiting room, exam room, infusion suite and the back office.
Remote Patient Monitoring
If the CPT Editorial Panel approves new changes and Medicare and private payers follow suit, providers that expand their remote patient monitoring programs to fit the new codes will gain the most benefits for their patients and clinics.
Island Hospital in Malaysia is building a technology-driven integrated health ecosystem in a bid to lower healthcare costs.
The company's chief financial officer, Mala Murthy, will step in as acting CEO.
AI & ML Intelligence
Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, senior medical director of digital health and innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses how artificial intelligence helps gain efficiencies throughout the patient journey and enable advances in individual health tracking.
The health system's new remote acute care unit aims to improve healthcare access and equity for eligible patients with daily clinical home visits and remote patient monitoring through its Medically Home technology.
Forming collaborative healthcare ecosystems between health systems, insurers and IT developers helps supports the goal of delivering cost-effective preventive care, says Adam Chee, associate professor, National University of Singapore.
Success Stories & ROI
And the telemedicine technology has increased the number of surgeries. It has enabled surgeons to feel comfortable performing more surgeries knowing they have available the clinical expertise to care for those patients in recovery in the ICU.