Clinical

Baptist Health is keeping pace with Jacksonville's booming growth, say the health system's CDIO, Aaron Miri, and Melanie Husk, its chief consumer officer, using a digital strategy focused on patient "delight" and secured by identity access management.

The Chennai-based health system's scale is never a hindrance to achieving digital maturity, says CIO Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, who explains how its teams achieved triple Stage 6 HIMSS Digital Maturity Model validations.

One expert contends telehealth can be the key to these programs, and that virtual care can be a disease-prevention tool to help with value-based care reimbursement models.

It will support the digital transformation of small clinics across the country.

The regional pediatrics provider is working across teams and with the AMA to determine the best staffing models, reduce unnecessary daily burdens for clinicians and improve medical assistant-to-clinician ratios.

Understanding people's health engagement behaviors is key to pushing them to manage their own health, says Praveen Deorani, senior data scientist at the Singapore Ministry of Health's Office of Healthcare Transformation.

Also, Singapore's Minister for Health Ong Ye Kung is participating in a new large-scale population health study. 

The guide is meant to improve data sharing among providers and public health agencies and enable semantic interoperability between sending and receiving systems, helping healthcare organizations incorporate shared data more easily into clinical workflows.

Community Health Network is tackling friction in care delivery and enhancing patient experience, says Dr. Patrick McGill, the health system's EVP and chief transformation officer.