Patient Engagement

The Indiana provider says pixels used to collect information about website users may have transferred certain types of patient information since 2017.

The agency issued a bulletin clarifying that a notice of pixel use does not permit PHI disclosure, and when HIPAA-compliant authorizations for pixels are required.

One major move was increasing its remote patient monitoring, providing additional tools and support to allow patients to feel comfortable recovering in their own home.

"With AI-enabled remote patient monitoring, we are streamlining our clinical workflow, improving our overhead and, most important, improving patient outcomes," the practice manager reports.

It has also brought back 40 hours per week of staff time back to nursing care.

Telemedicine has, at long last, become very popular.

Dawn Bardot, senior director global services for Abiomed, explains how clinical care teams – monitoring newly installed heart pumps from any of their devices, whether at the hospital or at home – can improve patient and family communications.

More widespread use of telehealth has enabled continuity of care for patients across different specialties and helped prevent adverse outcomes, says the health center's COO.

Also, the ADHA begins its transition to a new health information gateway.

Tim Morris, Vice President, Go-To-Market, EMEALAAP Elsevier, shares his thoughts on how hospitals can deliver value-based outcomes for truly patient-centric care.