Patient Engagement

Joint governance, audit monitoring and effective communication can help win patient trust, even in a fraught cybersecurity landscape where health systems are targeted for their patient data, says a Kaiser Permanente informatics leader.

It can now accurately measure and track real-time capacity and demand across wards and departments.

The next goal on the UAE's pioneering digital health journey is to promote prevention and happiness by engaging patients with the HIE, explains Dr Mohammad Al Redha, director of health informatics and smart health at the Dubai Health Authority.

Virtual reality made significant improvements in patient experiences. It has turned resistors at Hoag Hospital into champions, says Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Louis.

Also, Genea runs an integrated surgery management system powered by Clintel's CareRight.

Going forward, healthcare needs to be predictive, preventative, personalized and participatory – and technology can meet those goals.

The CEO of SteadyMD, one of the companies powering Amazon's virtual care efforts, discusses the potential for direct-to-consumer services, and describes what provider IT leaders should be thinking about as patients get accustomed to telemedicine.

It aims to build the largest connected care ecosystem in the country.

The HIMSS23 Asia-Pacific Health Conference on 18-21 September in Jakarta, Indonesia, will shine a spotlight on personalised models of care, big data and emerging technologies.

Virtuoso is a digital front door technology that can integrate health system data into a unified healthcare platform, the vendor says, and is designed to expand patient and family access to medical services.