Patient Engagement
The pressure to shift to value-based care means providers must understand their patients more deeply than in the past. Achieving that as part of a population health management program demands rethinking existing processes.
CIOs and innovation officers point to companies such as Ikea, Lego, Oxo -- and how they have conducted observational studies to effectively understand UX and deliver products accordingly.
At Healthcare IT News' inaugural Pop Health Forum 2016 in Boston May 19 and 20, clinicians, technology professionals and healthcare experts from across the country are gathered to explore the key enablers of effective population health management strategies: data and analytics, care coordination, patient engagement and more. Check back here for continuous updates.
Early returns from the Health Care Innovation Awards, a CMS initiative that tests new payment and service delivery models, already "show a wide range of experiences that have resulted in tangible benefits for patients" and have helped the agency develop better policies, said CMS Chief Medical Officer Patrick Conway, MD.
The federal regulatory environment has not kept pace with the progress of mobile health, which is driven by consumers who expect to have all sorts of information, including health data, on their phones.
By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News
Lacee Badgley, the mother of a seven-year-old, works full time as an insurance adjuster.
The platform, developed by Yale School of Medicine researchers and Yale New Haven Health System, is designed to enable patients to both access their records and participate in studies.
The health system’s CEO said it is creating an innovation arm to improve the patient experience as well as post-acute and behavioral health services.
The health system’s CIO said implementing the platform will enable it to improve care while reducing cost and risk.
The funding will span more than 20 projects to address several of healthcare’s biggest burdens, according to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.