Patient Engagement
Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Chief Healthcare and Innovation Officer at Femwell Group, discusses how the industry has to use metrics to move the needle on quality measures.
The younger the patient, the more likely they are to opt for nontraditional healthcare treatment options, such as yoga and telehealth.
Nurse navigators in particular can be important tools for both patients seeking better care and providers seeking more consistent reimbursement.
Cloe Benz, senior physiotherapist at Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, is using telehealth to deliver better child care and treatment.
FHIR is key to interoperability and better data access, claims Grahame Grieve, FHIR product director for HL7 International.
Steve Wretling, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at HIMSS, touches on the consumerization of healthcare, interoperability, data and more.
Marcia Conrad-Miller of CGI said if payers, providers, pharma work together on oversight and create data store, progress could be made.
As consumers become more powerful in healthcare, online reviews have become a more prominent tool by which to gauge brand quality.
Healthcare providers and plans need to implement open data sharing technologies to support transitions of care as patients move between plan types.
While the technology is maturing, there are still quality gaps that can be achieved by tweaking the process, improving the experience for patients and providers.