UK spending billions on health IT, remote patient monitoring
The plan includes hiring patient safety guru Dr. Robert Wachter of the University of California, San Francisco, to review IT infrastructure across the NHS.
Wachter: Digital health is now the norm, but it needs work
"In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business," Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.
presented by
A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Wachter: Make hand hygiene, flu shots mandatory for clinicians
Patient safety advocates affiliated with the National Patient Safety Foundation have proposed instituting a set of "must-do" practices for all healthcare organizations.