Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Interoperability and Public Health: CDC, Making the Connection with EHRs

Monday, March 1, 12:45 PM - 1:10 PM Co-sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Integrated Medical Home Leverages PHR and E-Connectivity to Transform Care

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The Integrated Medical Home program at the National Naval Medical Center leverages personal health records and e-connectivity to support a chronic/primary care model that is capable of sustaining quality healthcare and accentuates prevention and wellness.

The Role of Standards-Based Solutions in Driving Deployment of Connected Health Information Communit

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is reached the decade milestone. A vision of a connected and interoperable healthcare infrastructure is one of the most significant healthcare industry efforts of the 21st century. Since 1998, IHE functioning as an international consortium of healthcare professional organizations and industry, has worked collaboratively to foster adoption of standards-based solutions to information sharing in healthcare worldwide.

The Health Story Project Interoperability Strategy

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM 

Improving Quality and Access through Administrative and Clinical Transaction Convergence

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM This session will explore the experiences of several health plans leveraging administrative transactions to deliver clinical data. Provider response, obstacles, impact on quality and opportunities for health information exchanges will be evaluated and discussed.

Interoperability: Leveraging the ONC/HITSP Roadmap for Cost-effective Chronic Care

Sunday, February 28, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Learn and discuss how to leverage the approved HITSP Remote Monitoring specifications to improve patient care. When done properly, these investments also will facilitate more reliable, safe, cost-effective, and secure interoperable health data collection, sharing, and decision support for EHR, EMR PHR, health information exchange and health Internet applications.

Demonstrating Meaningful Use through Quality Measures

Saturday, February 27, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMPatient-centric, longitudinal and automated quality measurement is an essential component of meaningful use. This requires the development of standardized quality data sets and work flows that enable automation of quality measures through electronic health records. This session will explore national priorities and goals related to meaningful use of EHR data for purposes of quality measurement and performance improvement. The presenter will review the requirements for enabling automated quality measurement as a by-product of EHR data capture. Examples showing how standardized quality data sets can enable the power of the EHR in quality measurement will be presented.

AMA: Competition is dwindling for U.S. health insurers

A study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA) found that within 24 of the 43 reporting states in the study, two large insurance payors had a combined market share of 70 percent or more, and that overall competition in the health insurance industry is decreasing.

Around the web

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”