9 benefits of mobilizing patient care with hospital technology

The document introduces Salesforce Health Cloud, outlining its three core advantages: complete patient view, smarter patient management, and connected patient engagement. It provides an overview of each advantage: complete patient view gives access to integrated patient data; smarter patient management allows prioritizing tasks and segmenting patient populations; and connected patient engagement facilitates collaboration and secure messaging. The conclusion states that Salesforce Health Cloud enables building meaningful patient relationships by providing these advantages through a single platform.

Through new telehealth technologies and increased data analysis physicians are gaining insights into patients like never before, allowing them to facilitate early interventions, improve adherence, and reduce readmission rates -- not to mention at a price more affordable than ever. The companies you’ll hear from in this session are using a healthy and innovative mix of data, educational tools, sensors, and more to improve patient outcomes.

This document discusses healthcare analytics. It begins by defining healthcare analytics as focusing on technologies and processes that measure, manage, and analyze healthcare data to enable more effective and efficient operational and clinical decisions. It then outlines the objectives of healthcare analytics as making decisions data-driven, transparent, verifiable, and robust. The document describes the main types of analytics as descriptive, predictive, diagnostic, and prescriptive. It also lists some common sources of healthcare data and how healthcare companies use analytics to reduce costs, improve patient outcomes, and conduct randomized clinical trials. Emerging technologies discussed include big data, AI/ML, blockchain, and AR/VR. Finally, some existing healthcare analytics tools on the market are briefly described.

ImagineCare is a digital health platform developed by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System to help people better manage chronic diseases. The platform was designed using principles of behavior change and focuses on making services easy to use, continuously valuable, and aimed at behavior modification. It incorporates consumer health wearables, evidence-based care pathways, and secure cloud technologies. The goal of ImagineCare is to empower individuals to live healthier lives and better self-manage chronic conditions through a mobile app that enables 24/7 access to personalized care plans, remote patient monitoring, and proactive support.

A telemedicine software platform allows medical providers to diagnose and treat patients remotely using video chats, phone calls, email and other telecommunication tools. It works by having patients create an online account and request visits, notifying physicians of requests who can then accept, decline or schedule visits. Key benefits include seeing more patients per day, increased flexibility for providers and convenience for patients. Important factors for such a platform include supporting low bandwidth, being HIPAA compliant, having built-in support and scheduling capabilities. Setting one up involves ensuring equipment works, complying with telemedicine laws, training staff and setting up online workflows.

Personalized Mobile Applications in HealthCare by Bhargavi Upadhya, Philips Innovation Campus, India

Tablets in Education and Healthcare Doug Feldmann, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Education and Human Services - Northern Kentucky University David Wetherelt, Director of Mobile Strategies - SoftClouds Sol Rosenberg, VP, Business Development & Content Acquisition- Copia Interactive, LLC

Sharing protected health information between healthcare providers is important for treating patients, but it risks breaching patient privacy. Ensuring compliance with privacy and security regulations through measures like router and device security can be time-consuming for understaffed IT departments. Performing required risk assessments and audits to comply with regulations can also overwhelm small practices or stretch the limits of available IT resources. A scalable and user-friendly software package can help healthcare providers effectively maintain compliance with reporting requirements while protecting patient information.

This document discusses how Microsoft platforms can help digitize and optimize clinical workflows in healthcare. It outlines Microsoft's perspective of enabling personalized care, empowering care teams, protecting health information, and improving operational outcomes. The document then provides examples of how Teams can be used as an engagement hub to create role-tailored digital workflows for different clinical roles like nursing, physicians, and administration. It also discusses challenges healthcare providers face from rising costs, aging populations, and increasing chronic conditions.