Patient Engagement

Healthcare IT News’ APAC Managing Editor weighs in on the sessions he's looking forward to at the HIMSS APAC conference this year.

HIMSS Davies Award winner Texas Children's Hospital’s assistant VPs Tarra Kerr and Ashok Kurian discuss their patient-centered coordinated care, enabled by a partnership between quality and safety departments, clinical operations and IT systems.

Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of patients who traditionally received high acuity care at hospitals could receive virtual care through the program.

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs broke records by achieving HIMSS stage 7 in four models concurrently. Raed Alhamze explores the impact on patient outcomes.

Anjali Kataria, Mytonomy CEO and cofounder, says that content streaming and AI can empower patients at home and help hospitals and health systems improve their patient education materials as they reduce the time nurses spend answering questions.

Incorporating cloud-native architecture, agile methodologies, product-driven development and DevOps all are needed, says Dr. Melek Somai, CTO at Inception Health, a subsidiary of Froedtert Health.

Also, The Clinician's ZEDOC platform is being tried out to facilitate digital tinnitus care.

Under the White House’s National Cancer Moonshot initiative, Oracle will contribute cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise, as well as clinical and healthcare research, care delivery and scientific insights.