Patient Engagement

Project HEAL is helping those with eating disorders overcome them to improve quality of life and reduce healthcare utilization and cost, says CEO and co-founder Kristina Saffran.

Savvy Cooperative connects innovators directly with patients so they can work together to design effective products, says founder and CEO Jen Horonjeff.

The system worked with a patient design team and turned the metrics of success upside down, for starters.

Improving care for patients with chronic disease is about more than just medicine, and online resources are giving patients a strong voice in the business of healthcare, says Colin Hung, CMO of HealthcareScene.com.

The iPhone app enables patients to access data about medications, immunizations, labs and receive notifications.

AMIA CEO Doug Fridsma says healthcare should simplify its approach to data exchange: keeping a laser focus on worthwhile use cases, sharing first and standardizing later, while also taking some cues from the basic APIs that power the World Wide Web.

Among other improvements, the EHR and other systems in the suite enabled Yucaipa Urgent Care to cut patient throughput time from two hours to 30-45 minutes.

Further, in part thanks to the software and savvy use of search engine optimization, the five-location group practice grew gross revenue by 32 percent.

The two-day event on "bringing hospitals and patients together through information and technology" took place last week at the University of Liège in Belgium.