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Patient Engagement
Smartphone tools can help improve health equity by improving care access and empowering patients to collect and transmit their own data via wearables, says Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine.
Virtual nursing and virtual sitting can mitigate labor-related challenges in the acute care setting by allowing the monitoring of multiple patients remotely. Toby Eadelman, CTO at AvaSure, explains.
Providers need to be using technology to acquire new patients and to serve existing ones more effectively, says Tom Kiesau, chief innovation officer and digital leader at the Chartis Group, who outlines some strategies.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center is using the model to help shape its approach to health equity in providing care for often-underserved populations. Gabriel Garcia-Lopez, the center's health information systems director, explains.
Even with a serious provider shortage, virtual care can help connect patients to care in underserved areas, says Dan Ferris, chief marketing officer at Iris Telehealth.
The promise of hospital-at-home in the U.S. and improving clinical informatics in the MENA region, as told by Dr. Anwar Jebran, clinical informatics fellow at UI Health and member of the HIMSS Physician Committee.
On Day 1 of the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Chicago, our roving reporters and thought leaders deliver news and views from the show floor.
Geisinger is using smart TVs to deliver to patients relevant, integrated clinical information, says Rebecca Stametz, VP of digital transformation at the company's Steele Institute for Health Innovation.
Geisinger develops a data-driven care navigation workflow to ensure patients were referred to the right provider based on their complaint and level of acuity. Benjamin C. Gonzales, operations manager, virtual care, behavioral health, previews his session.
Dr. Laura Jehi, the health system's chief research information officer, will speak with colleagues at HIMSS23 about how the Epic EHR and MyChart are helping to recruit participants for research initiatives such as the Cleveland Clinic BioRepository.
