Healthcare organizations need tools for analytics, care coordination, telehealth – and patient engagement. And those must be integrated to arm doctors with data and insights they can use to focus on the art of medicine.
Government guidance and best practices will only get hospitals so far. Both value-based care and population health require a stronger-than-ever orientation toward teamwork and that includes patients as well as communities.
The 2016 Tech Report features Physicians Practice's annual Technology Survey, which asked more than 1,500 physicians and practice managers across the country about their health information technology use.
While payers and large health systems have detailed, cross-departmental protocols to manage security incidents, many hospitals 'don't even have plans in place.'
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'For every single problem you must have a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary team. The low-hanging fruit in healthcare is gone. Now every problem is going to be hard.'
Delbanco also predicts that patients will stop using electronic health records or portals to read what doctors have written about them and, instead, view that on a smartwatch, phone or other gadget.
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