Patient Engagement

Skillsets are changing rapidly. Hospitals must move quickly to keep pace. Experts from Advocate, Geisinger, University of California San Francisco and University of Mississippi Medical Center share best practices and lessons learned. 

The move would empower patients to control their own data, according to Ricky Bloomfield, MD, of Duke Health, and help eradicate the tradition of paternalism in medicine.

The noted physician, software engineer and open science champion said that the hardest part of big data is knowing what questions to ask and finding people capable of figuring that out.

The cloud-based service, dubbed myAva, can be used to analyze biometric, genomic, molecular and patient-generated data to create digital profiles of patients that inform care plans.

Startup intends to use the funding to scale its EHR-agnostic cloud-based service and analytics for helping doctors determine the best treatment options for patients.

Patient-generated health data is proving to be critical in the shift to value-based care.

The new lab will provide employees with resources to pioneer new technologies that may ultimately be commercialized.

The analytics vendor combined new capabilities including machine learning to automate the process of finding, stratifying, enrolling and communicating with patients eligible for CCM. 

A surge of recent developments – the rise in apps for care management and wellness, advances in research data, precision medicine gains – is placing a great responsibility on healthcare leaders to break down data silos to simplify data sharing among providers. And consumers, too.

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