+44-7897-074717Primary Care 2.0: Use Information Technology to enhance care quality and deliver high value care
Joint Event on Healthcare and Health Management & Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
August 27-28, 2018 | London, UK
Cheng-Kai Kao
University of Chicago, USA
Posters & Accepted Abstracts : J Public Health Policy Plann
Abstract:
The modern primary healthcare is entering a new stagea truly patient-centered, personalized care model with the aid of health information technolgy (IT), such as mobile technology, patient portals, telemedicine, and online patient communities. These innovative health IT tools significantly enhance chronic disease management, mitiligate health disparities, personalize individual treatments, strengthen patient education, empower patient self-management, provide home monitoring, and solidify the patient-provider relationship. However, challenges remain before the full adoption. For example, healthcare providers now have access to a bevy of mobile health apps in almost every domain of medicine that can be used at the point-of-care to facilitate a variety of tasks. Certain prescribed apps have shown promising results in randomized controlled trials. Nonetheless, with estimated over 165,000 mobile health apps in major app stores and lack of supervising authorities, it is challenging to know how to best use these apps. Therefore, today’s frontline providers must not only be compassionate healthcare professionals, but also become cutting-edge leaders in ‘primary care 2.0.’ In order to enhance care quality, reduce healthcare cost, achieve better outcome, and meet the ultimate goal of improving population health, the primary care providers have to adopt and learn how to best utilize information technology in their day-today practice to deliver high value care in this modern world.
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