Impacting Patient Care With Innovation

Sometimes it feels like health technology out innovates itself – improvement for the sake of improvement; a solution in search of a problem. While prospects for health IT innovation are exciting, Susan Dentzer, Senior Policy Adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation thinks there’s a prerequisite. “Health IT innovation could meaningfully improve patient care if innovators focused more attention on one reality: Patients don’t always want what healthcare providers offer them,” she said.

“Having more information about the areas of healthcare about which patients ‘just say no’ may help us find aspects of care that simply are not worth providing, or identify alternatives aspects of care that are either more effective or less costly – including doing nothing,” she added.

Learn more from Dentzer and other innovators at the upcoming National Healthcare Innovation Summit in Boston, May 13-15. >> http://ow.ly/uNsh9

Patriot Labs and its partners are fairly well aligned with the 2013 Healthcare Provider Survey, which outlined five areas where strategically applied health IT innovation can benefit patient care moving forward:

1. Population Health Management
2. Patient Follow-Up
3. Predictive Analytics
4. Care Coordination
5. Clinical Decision Support

We are committed to doing our part in supporting healthcare transformation. Where do YOU think our efforts can have the greatest potential in improving patient outcomes?

 

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