Patient Engagement

Yesterday, Icon Group (Icon), Australia’s largest dedicated private provider of cancer care, officially signed an agreement with China’s Sanbo Brain Hospital Group (Sanbo) to deliver radiation oncology services, which are set to open later this year in their Chang’an hospital in Chongqing.

Integrated care and interoperability is complex if it has to be managed by experts. It becomes pretty easy once you let the patient have a say, according to Philipp Grätzel von Grätz, editorial director of HIMSS Insights.

Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases.

Harvard University’s Stan Shaw and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s John Halamka detail a new executive education joint venture between Harvard Medical School and HIMSS.

The tool will deliver what the company calls Health Nudges to help users better manage hypertension.

Also: Dutch AI startup Aidence closes €10m Series A funding round; North of Scotland Care Portal goes live; mHabitat director warns patients should be involved in the design of digital tools.

The Palmerston North-based Health Hub Project in New Zealand is aiming to reduce health inequities and increase access to care with the help of artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain.

Nick Knowlton, VP of strategic initiatives at Brightree, discusses working with the CommonWell Health Alliance to enable patient-centric interoperability across the spectrum of care.

The focus should be on wellcare not healthcare, because finding a condition early results in better outcomes and better costs, says Nick van Terheyden, managing director of Incremental Healthcare.

The initiatives will see academics collaborate with businesses to generate improvements in treatment options for asthma patients, as estimates show around 5.4 million people in the UK are affected by the condition.