Lots of health systems pay lip service to patient-centric care, but what does that really mean? As healthcare continues its transition to paying for value and outcomes, toward managing wellness rather than treating disease, making the patient an active participant in the process is more important than ever.
Some hospitals and health systems are better at doing this that others. Certainly many have worked in earnest these past few years to do it well. And no question, there's a wide array of different tips, tricks and tools to getting patient engagement right.
At the Patient Engagement & Experience Summit, which takes place Monday, March 5, at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas, experts from across healthcare - clinicians, technologists, patient advocates, chief experience officers and others - will gather for a day-long event to compare notes and share success stories and best practices for getting patient populations more involved with and attentive to their own healthcare.
Just as important, some speakers will focus on the patient experience - ensuring that care delivery in hospitals, physician practices and post-acute care settings is respectful and responsive to specific needs - perhaps even enjoyable.
Both engagement and experience are necessary in the era of accountable care, after all. The former is key to care coordination, chronic disease management, medication adherence and reductions in readmissions - all critical for value-based reimbursement. The latter can be the difference in creating a competitive edge compared with the hospital across town.
The Patient Engagement & Experience Summit, co-presented by HIMSS and the Cleveland Clinic, will convene providers, payers, policymakers and others to offer well-honed advice on the technologies and strategies that can help improve on both counts.
The day's events will be emceed by Adrienne Boissy, chief experience officer at Cleveland Clinic Health System.
Other speakers will include Pracha Eamranond, senior vice president medical affairs and population health at Harvard Medical School's Lawrence General Hospital; Larry
Chu, professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford; David Asche, executive director of Penn Medicine's Center for Health Care Innovation, and Donald Kosiak, chief medical officer at Leidos.
Source: Healthcare IT News (View full article)
Posted by Dan Corcoran on January 8, 2018 11:39 AM
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