The digital health space refers to the integration of technology and health care services to improve the overall quality of health care delivery. It encompasses a wide range of innovative and emerging technologies such as wearables, telehealth, artificial intelligence, mobile health, and electronic health records (EHRs). The digital health space offers numerous benefits such as improved patient outcomes, increased access to health care, reduced costs, and improved communication and collaboration between patients and health care providers. For example, patients can now monitor their vital signs such as blood pressure and glucose levels from home using wearable devices and share the data with their doctors in real-time. Telehealth technology allows patients to consult with their health care providers remotely without having to travel to the hospital, making health care more accessible, particularly in remote or rural areas. Artificial intelligence can be used to analyze vast amounts of patient data to identify patterns, predict outcomes, and provide personalized treatment recommendations. Overall, the digital health space is rapidly evolving, and the integration of technology in health
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Saturday, September 26, 2015

WEDI and NATE Announce Partnership re: Virtual Clipboard Initiative

The Virtual Clipboard

Patient centered medicine requires an increase in perception of how patients view the medical system.  In the past patients were passive participants in a highly complex system. Today, the system is even more complex, even defying the ability of health professionals to navigate the maze.  Health Information technology may be one source of 'rescue'. I like to thinks so. Collaboration is necessary to achieve the goal: Our article today addresses what partnerships are occurring in this space


 
 
 

   

NATE's NBB4C makes it easier for providers to share health information with their patients so that their patients can do what they want with it.
 
 

  
 
WEDI and NATE Announce Partnership
Collaboration will support further development of Virtual Clipboard Initiative and research promoting health care interoperability
RESTON, Va. and WASHINGTON, D.C. - September 25, 2015 - The Work group for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in health care information exchange, and the National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority in consumer-mediated electronic health information exchange, announced a partnership to cooperate on Phase II of the Virtual Clipboard Initiative and to advance research concerning health care interoperability.
“Our collaboration with NATE is instrumental to our mission as we work to broaden interoperability in health care technology in a consistent manner across all stakeholders in the industry,” said Devin Jopp, Ed.D., president and CEO of WEDI. “The expertise of NATE’s leaders, membership and partnering stakeholders will be invaluable as we further the Virtual Clipboard Initiative into the next phase of the program.”
Building off recommendations contained in the 2013 WEDI Report, the Virtual Clipboard Initiative was developed by The Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation, in collaboration with WEDI, the Health care Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) to leverage advanced technologies to dramatically enhance the patient experience while improving patient safety.
“This is an important partnership for our industry, and one that will afford tremendous advantages to the members of both organizations,” said Aaron Seib, NATE CEO. “We are confident that the synergies of our organizations will produce amazing returns as we look to enhance the use of additional interoperable technologies that include the consumer, bringing about a new era in health care.”
WEDI’s mission is to provide leadership and guidance to the health care industry on how to use and leverage the industry’s collective knowledge, expertise and information resources to improve the quality, affordability and availability of health care. NATE brings the expertise of its membership and other stakeholders together to find common solutions that optimize the appropriate exchange of health information for greater gains in adoption and outcomes. Both NATE and WEDI welcome the participation of all interested stakeholders and encourage them to get engaged with either or both organizations’ collaborative activities.

About National Association for Trusted Exchange
The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE) brings the expertise of its membership and other stakeholders together to find common solutions that optimize the appropriate exchange of health information for greater gains in adoption and outcomes. Emerging from the Western States Consortium, a pilot project supported by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), NATE was established as a not-for-profit organization in May 2013. Consistent with NATE’s mission to address the legal, policy, and technical barriers that inhibit health information exchange between entities within a state and across states, NATE leads and participates in a number of ongoing and emerging projects in the HIE domain. NATE has been operating its ownTrust Bundles in production since November 2012 and took over administration of the Blue Button Plus Patient and Provider Trust Bundles in 2014. Working with a broad set of stakeholders through multiple task forces, crowd sourcing and a call for public comment, NATE is proud to make available the first release of NATE's flagship Blue Button for Consumers (NBB4C) Trust Bundle beginning in 2015. NATE will soon move into a new phase of development around Blue Button Trust Bundles. Stakeholders interested in participating in the next phase of NATE’s work in consumer mediated exchange should consider NATE membership or subscribe to news from NATE’s PHR Community.
About WEDI
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is the leading authority on the use of health IT to improve health care information exchange in order to enhance the quality of care, improve efficiency, and reduce costs of our nation’s health care system. WEDI was formed in 1991 by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and was designated in the 1996 HIPAA legislation as an advisor to HHS. WEDI’s membership includes a broad coalition of organizations, including: hospitals, providers, health plans, vendors, government agencies, consumers, not-for-profit organizations, and standards development organizations. To learn more, visit www.wedi.org and connect with us on TwitterFacebook and LinkedIn.
 
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Networked Intelligence in Health and Medicine fueled by Social Media


Attribution given to Bryan Vartabedian, MD

How does a hospital or provider move into the digital space ? And what part of the space should you participate ?


Are you a part of it, and do you want to be a part of it? Is this a necessity, or just a fad ?


Do you have an overall marketing plan, or separate department for marketing?


You will need to assess your reasons for HIT and social media.  Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchanges, mHealth, social media, all serve different needs, some elective and some necessary.


An important component is time and money, neither of which are an infinite resource. Given the current massive health reform that is being legislated practice resources must be aligned with regulatory mandates.


Reality plays a big role.  Many social media users do it for pure enjoyment as a break from conventional routines of their day.  Some do it for making new contacts, social or medical, based on current interests.  Others look for new vistas, hobbies, and activities one would never entertain,unless in the process of social media it happens spontaneously.  Some social media hobbyists transition into a vocation in marketing, education, or entertainment.


Your regional  social media politically correct standards may play a role in your decision making. Social media is just that…….voluntary.  Let’s compare social events such as medical staff meetings, part business, part pleasure, and a source of much information and communication.  If you think about your daily activities, meetings, learning experiences, creative thinking can create reasons for using social media.


You may want to expand your visibility either locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally.


There are choices:


1. Do it yourself.  This requires significant time and effort as well as a learning curve to
do it efficiently. There are many who are willing and able to teach you, some for free, and
others who charge a fee.  One example is the Social Media Residency offered by Lee
Aase and the Mayo Clinic.


2.Hire someone or a professional digital marketer to do it for you. Since you are in
the business of medicine, highly skilled and have a relatively high ability to generate
income. Why bother yourself with these tasks.


There are innumerable online companies offering software products to encompass
a marketing plan.


3. Like Real Estate the main concern is ‘location, location, location. So too is social
media.  Your choices and perhaps limitations will depend on where you practice ?
Factors such as the form of your medical practice, solo,group, specialty, or academic
will more than influence your options. Listen to this story from “33 Charts”, a well known
blog.


DECEMBER 14, 2013Albert Flexner, M.D. (courtesy, National Library of Medicine)
Last year was part of a small group charged with building a social media toolkit for medical schools.  An early conference call participant made it clear that if the project didn’t meet certain criteria for academic advancement, he’d be unable to participate.  It was the last time we heard from him.  Unfortunate but predictable.
There is a movement to qualify and/or quantify social media publishing by clinicians and scientists. In an article published on iMedicalApps, one pharmacist had this to say about this prospect,


What counts is what brings value


New forms of knowledge creation and how they fit into a dated system of promotion is a growing preoccupation for many physicians.  And the question of what should ‘count’ toward academic advancement is one that’s received attention lately.  Some have approached advancement committees to have their blogs recognized as evidence of scholarship.  I haven’t decided whether these attempts are noble or laughable.
What counts is what brings value.  And what brings value in medicine are cameos in peer-reviewed publications.  This makes sense.  Because in the era of analog medicine, this was the only means by which physicians communicated ideas and findings.  Appearance in this 17th century tool of idea transmission has defined leadership through most of medical history.

Embedded habits are slowly eroded, as better solutions appear.

The age of networked intelligence will spawn a new kind of leader

But things have changed and doctors have new ways to share ideas and change minds.  Now every doctor, independent of institutional affiliation, tenure, pedigree or lineage is empowered with the capacity to grow, share and develop ideas.
And so the age of networked intelligence will spawn a new type of leader.  Expect to see regular doctors emerge as influential not based on lists of publications but on the strength and novelty of their ideas.  Leadership will be determined in part by the capacity to leverage new tools to build, communicate and influence.
But don’t expect them to be promoted.  For now.

Think much, publish little

Despite how we connect and communicate, peer-reviewed research will remain an important element in the advancement of medicine.  But it represents only one way to lead.  For those early in their career, there are some things you can do.
Perhaps we should think more before we publish our blogs, tweet or build facebook and/or google pages.  (or at least make our posts less often, and shorter.
Thanks to Dr. Vartabedian for his insights.