Patient Engagement

Plans will jointly operate 14 community resource centers across Los Angeles that will leverage personalized technology solutions to improve health.

While the agencies will no longer maintain or update the CONNECT wiki, it will continue to exist as an open source project whose code and community resources can be "used, adopted and implemented by any interested organization."

Integrated into Epic's clinical workflow using SMART on FHIR, the cloud-based Meducation platform offers simplified, patient-specific medication instructions.

Risa Stack, general manager at GE Ventures, discusses new trends in consumerism and patient engagement as well as advances in pharmacogenomic therapies.

Following the successful trialling of the co-designed standards to improve the secure exchange of healthcare information in 2018, the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has announced that it is partnering with 42 organisations to ensure they are able to easily share information when using different secure messaging platforms across 56 separate software products.

CommonHealth, an open-source app designed to enable easier information sharing, will use HL7 FHIR and other specs to give Android phones similar functionality to Apple Health.

At Health 2.0 this month, seven disparate companies will show how their apps and platforms are being put to work leveraging clinical and social data to drive innovations in care delivery.

More than 80% of users are very or extremely satisfied with the ability to directly communicate with surgeons, and the secure messaging app has also resulted in patients and caregivers being more relaxed.

Three representative vendors discuss why social determinants of health are important to population health management, and describe how their technologies help put these important data points to work.

"We defined early on that the customer experience should be simple, correct, and direct, and be delivered with empathy, efficiency, and pride.”