While I believe (and am betting my career) on the potential of AI to drive improvements in patient and financial outcomes. healthcare is a hands-on service that requires people. There is currently a shortage of providers and other clinicians in many domains, and it looks like a trend that will continue. Telehealth and remote patient monitoring might not be shiny and new anymore, but it permits a single caregiver or small team to help care for large populations of patients, helping to mitigate caregiver shortages while helping them deliver improvements in outcomes. Combining AI with telehealth will be a force multiplier.
Cosmos - 3 months ago
AI-powered care management might have potential. Lots of people track their health outcomes manually on apps, everything from fitness to pregnancy to mental health. If AI can help those people (and more?) close care gaps and nudge people towards positive nutrition and lifestyle, there could be significant improvements
Time will tell and market drivers will determine which one of these new technologies will have the fastest adoption. What’s missing from the list, IMHO, are the foundational things required to propel most of these innovations: permitted data access, national patient identifier, and data quality as well as FHIR permitted access. #tefca stands to provide the foundational rules (Common Agreement) and regulated technology platform (QTF) provided by five QHINs (qualified health information networks).
Barry Hieb - 3 months ago
We are finally going to replace probabilistic demographic matching with an accurate patient identifier that will eliminate patient mis-identification, enable patient-specific privacy and make recovery from identity-theft and data breach episodes possible. Results will include dramatically reduced costs, true interoperability, and improved operational efficiency.
Linda Harrington - 3 months ago
Voting for automation, augmentation, accuracy, and acceleration.
While I believe (and am betting my career) on the potential of AI to drive improvements in patient and financial outcomes. healthcare is a hands-on service that requires people. There is currently a shortage of providers and other clinicians in many domains, and it looks like a trend that will continue. Telehealth and remote patient monitoring might not be shiny and new anymore, but it permits a single caregiver or small team to help care for large populations of patients, helping to mitigate caregiver shortages while helping them deliver improvements in outcomes. Combining AI with telehealth will be a force multiplier.
AI-powered care management might have potential. Lots of people track their health outcomes manually on apps, everything from fitness to pregnancy to mental health. If AI can help those people (and more?) close care gaps and nudge people towards positive nutrition and lifestyle, there could be significant improvements
Time will tell and market drivers will determine which one of these new technologies will have the fastest adoption. What’s missing from the list, IMHO, are the foundational things required to propel most of these innovations: permitted data access, national patient identifier, and data quality as well as FHIR permitted access. #tefca stands to provide the foundational rules (Common Agreement) and regulated technology platform (QTF) provided by five QHINs (qualified health information networks).
We are finally going to replace probabilistic demographic matching with an accurate patient identifier that will eliminate patient mis-identification, enable patient-specific privacy and make recovery from identity-theft and data breach episodes possible. Results will include dramatically reduced costs, true interoperability, and improved operational efficiency.
Voting for automation, augmentation, accuracy, and acceleration.