The key with digital therapeutics isn’t to design processes in a bubble, but rather, to “look at your stakeholders, including patients, and ask, ‘how can we leverage this technology together? What problem are we trying to solve?” said Joe Diver, CIO at Holyoke Medical Center.
After the “Thunder”: How Organizations Can Realize Telehealth’s Long-term Potential
Rather than comparing telehealth services to office visits in terms of data collection – which is future – perhaps we should focus on integrating virtual care into the overall care picture, said Dr. Joe Kvedar in this piece. “It is time for telehealth to sit at the grownup’s table and be treated like an honest service.
“A Given, Not a Luxury”: CIO Renee Broadbent on SONE Health’s SDoH Journey
The Power of “Reach”: Why Mayo Clinic Platform’s Data Network Might Have an Edge
Through partnerships with health systems, payers, medical device companies, and academic medical centers, Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect aims to find better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, according to John Halamka, MD. How? “By connecting clinical data through a federated, secure architecture.”
Q&A with Allegheny Health CDIO Ashis Barad, MD: “We Need to Do the Hard Work of Laying Down the Foundation.”
Building engagement tools in a way that “surfaces through the care team” is a critical goal for Ashis Barad, MD, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Allegheny Health Network. But it can’t be “built in a way that’s just adding burden to the care teams by having more alerts put in front of them,” he said in this interview.
How Do We Compete With In-Person Care?
If telehealth can consistency provide a convenient virtual environment, as well as a clinical workflow that identifies which patients and conditions are appropriate for telehealth services, it’s far more likely to be able to compete with in-person care, according to Joseph Kvedar, MD, Senior Advisor, at the MGH Center for Innovation.