Patient Engagement

The goal is to help ensure patient safety in telemedicine, and to help healthcare organizations standardize approaches to virtual care with an eye toward quality improvement and patient outcomes that are "consistent with traditional settings."

In what's billed as the first use of genAI-powered medical documentation in U.S. emergency departments, HCA Healthcare clinicians say a recent pilot with Augmedix shortened charting time and reduced their daily burden.

New data shows how post-acute facilities understand patients' needs and can provide services that both improve outcomes and meet CMS' value-based care standards. Heidi Wold, chief population health officer at Longevity Health Plan, explains.  

Only 0.6% of remote encounters managed by the health system's remote patient monitoring vendor's caregivers escalate to Providence clinicians. Hypertension RPM patients saw a 12.55% reduction in systolic blood pressure by week 12.

Andrew Schultz, PatientPoint chief product and strategy officer, shows how the technology works as a communication hub between the waiting room, exam room, infusion suite and the back office.  

A particular technology has enabled one of NSW's busiest private cancer centres to quickly implement the latest cancer treatment guideline.

The release of CA v2.0, updated to require support for API exchange using the HL7 spec, allows TEFCA to "keep pace with the advanced, secure data services approaches" employed by the larger tech industry, says National Coordinator Micky Tripathi.

The role of nurse informaticists has expanded to include deciding which technologies can best support evolving care delivery models, says MaryAnn Connor, senior director of nursing informatics, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care.

The move from on-premise to Oracle's cloud seeks to provide patients and clinicians with faster and more secure access to data.