Patient Engagement

As artificial intelligence and machine learning are deployed more widely and consequentially across healthcare and elsewhere, "it is vital that we address safety, security and equity concerns."

IT and informatics are helping spur innovation – delivering better virtual care on the patient's own terms, says Dr. Nirav Shah, medical director of quality innovation at NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Illumen Capital is an impact investor, aiming to make positive social and environmental improvements – in healthcare and elsewhere – while generating a financial ROI. Daryn Dodson explains how.

The merger agreement with the IT-driven primary care company aims to make healthcare more "accessible, affordable and even enjoyable" with in-person and virtual care services.

The value-based care provider focused on opioid-use disorder has built an effective combination of telemedicine and connected health.

"It should not take a federal investigation before a HIPAA-covered entity provides patients, or their personal representatives, with access to their medical records," said OCR Director Lisa J. Pino.

Delivering real-time cost and coverage information to provider workflows enables better care decisions and patient access.

Granular data segmentation and patient-driven consent-management tools are essential when managing interoperability for population health, says Dr. Hannah Galvin, chief medical information officer at Cambridge Health Alliance.

With Google, Meta and others pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence research, Chirag Shah, professor at the iSchool at the University of Washington, talks about some practical and ethical considerations.

Birgit Bauer, an expert on digital health, speaks about her involvement in the Gravitate Health project and its user advisory group, and discusses they keys to meaningful patient involvement.