Business Strategy Figure 1: The Patient-centered Continuum of Care Primarily for chronic disease management Home monitoring Same-day surgery
Ambulatory surgery centers
Home Beyond Dispatch based on outcomes and conditions
Patient-centered approach
Retail clinics Free-standing
Emergency department
Hospital
Urgent care centers
Ease emergency department burden
Figure 2: Technology Adoption Cycle—Only a Small Percentage of Innovators have Fully Adopted Electronic Health Records (CVS Caremark, Walmart)
Specialist referral Distribution points
Front-line access points for patient medical homes
Keep patient in network
Overall wellness programs
Ability to monitor patients by tapping into their implantable devices through The Cloud
Innovators 2.5 %
Early
adopters 13.5 %
Early
majority 34 %
Late
majority 34 %
Laggards 16 %
care-givers while improving clinical workflow and matching the organizations’ strategic goals. Meaningful use compliance should be the top strategic goal. This requires two key components: meaningful data from mission-critical areas, and meaningful use (i.e., clinician adoption).
The need for developing a transitional strategy without disrupting the current workflow is crucial to EHR modernization. Systems must be able to support open standards as well as effectively communicate information without requiring extensive tailoring of the core infrastructure.
Effective Use of Mobile Technology Enablers Health information technology (HIT) will not in itself improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery, but it will support and enable meaningful data practices that can improve efficiency. HIT can also stimulate broader system improvements by leveraging data to be used as knowledge.11
The focus should be on value and optimum outcomes for patients, not just on lowering costs. 116
Today, hospitals of all sizes and large integrated delivery networks are exploring how the adoption of technology may be used to improve workflow and generate revenue for key clinical services, such as cardiology and diabetes care.
Increasing consumer interest in smartphones, the participation of Internet players in the mobile space, the emergence of application stores and cross-industry services, and the ingenuity of mobile application developers are rapidly attracting users to the mobile health (mHealth) space. As mobile devices are rapidly incorporated into activities of daily living for both patients and providers, the deployment of mHealth technologies could help transform medical care and public health management.
Care virtualization through mobility is rapidly emerging as the best, and likely the only, answer to support the challenges facing the evolving healthcare landscape. One has to consider that:
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