Healthcare IT

At the recent NaviNet Chief Medical Officer Advisory Board meeting, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Todd Park, gave us an inside view of the HealthDataInitiative Forum III (HDI Forum III), a competition also known as The Health Datapalooza, which will take place at the Washington Convention Center on June 5-6, 2012.

 

Noted author, commentator, and observer Nancy Finn (e-Patients Live Longer: The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology) joined NaviNet’s Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, Meghan Oates-Zalesky, on Thursday, March 15, 2012, to discuss one of the most important challenges in healthcare today: patient engagement.

Jennifer Dennard is the Social Marketing Director at Billian Inc.—parent company of Billian’s HealthData, Porter Research, and HITR.com—as well as a syndicated blogger for Healthcare IT News and EMRandEHR.com.

Chad Johnson is a blogger and curator for HL7Standards, which focuses on how technology can revolutionize our healthcare system. In this post, Chad shares his insights on the role that patients, providers, and health plans play in this change. 

What if we could lower the financial burden associated with the top 5% of patients accounting for almost 50% of healthcare costs?1 We believe that such a transformation is achievable through accountable care delivery models like the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), which offers a collaborative, team-based approach with the primary care physician (PCP) at its nexus. One of the most powerful elements in PCMH is that this model financially rewards outcome-based healthcare.

The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium‘s February 3 HIT’12: The Future is Now attracted leaders in healthcare from all over New England: providers, health plans, government agency staff, and other healthcare continuum stakeholders. This one-day event included such topics as "Cutting-Edge Technologies in Genomics, Robotics, and Medical Care," "How HIT Has Transformed Care Delivery," and "The Leading Challenges of 2012."

Bryan Vartabedian, M.D., FAAP has been blogging about physicians and healthcare since 2006. We recently caught up with him to talk about the management of patient information, care collaboration, the role of social media in healthcare, and the reasons for his optimism about the future of healthcare.

We were happy to catch up with Kent Bottles M.D., healthcare thought leader and consultant. Kent regularly shares his passion for improving patient engagement and strengthening stakeholder relationships on his blog. Kent is a popular keynote speaker, respected by healthcare professionals and innovators alike. He shared his insights on how technology will continue to transform healthcare delivery in 2012.

We are excited to continue our NaviNet 2012 Expert Interview series this week with Shahid Shah, enterprise software and healthcare IT analyst, consultant, and entrepreneur.