Patient Engagement

Dr. Khulood Mohamed Alsayegh, head of clinical standards and guidelines at the Dubai Health Authority, says that the drive toward leveraging telehealth to empower patients is aimed at utilizing technology and the human factor to improve the patient experience.

AdventHealth, the faith-based Florida health system that runs 50 hospitals and more than 1,200 outpatient settings in nine states nationwide, has decided to deploy a new electronic health record and revenue cycle management system from Epic – replacing its existing Cerner technology.

Kalle Killar, deputy secretary general at the Ministry of Social Affairs in Estonia, says that citizens have full access to how their data is used in managing their healthcare which helps ensure trust remains high between the stakeholders.

Benjamin Philippe, EMEA Healthcare Sales and Business Development Lead at HP Inc., says that reducing the rate of healthcare-associated infections, while securing patient information are focus areas in achieving high quality patient care.

Last week, Victoria-based Melbourne Pathology became the latest pathology provider to upload reports to My Health Record (MHR).

Whole person care means aligning the goals of the patient to the care team.

JoAnn Difede, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, talks about experience working with a simulated digital therapy for PTSD patients, and how it led to her current work on VR therapeutics.

But Providence St. Joseph Health Chief Digital Officer Aaron Martin sees a near future when hospitals will meet their disruptors halfway.

Its new report on emerging technologies sees appetite and aptitude growing for telehealth and virtual visits, remote patient monitoring, clinical decision support and more.

The clinical workforce plays a major role in successfully embedding a digital strategy to improve the patient experience, says Mark Hutchinson, chief digital officer at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.