Information Age Health Care: Telehealth powers Population Health Management

Population Health is one of the three cornerstones of healthcare’s “Triple Aim” – which includes

Improving the experience of care
Improving the health of populations
Reducing the per capita costs of healthcare

Briefly, Population Health looks beyond the health outcome of an individual. It looks at outcomes across a group as well as the distribution of outcomes within that group.

The Healthcare Intelligence Network has put together a nice infographic that summarizes how telehealth powers Population Health Management.

It covers:

How people are using telehealth for clinical vs. non-clinical purposes
Top clinical areas targeted for telehealth
The top technologies being employed for telehealth
Top types of clinical applications for telehealth
How they are tapping the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) provisions that support telehealth

You can use this infographic to

Determine if your telehealth solution is aligned with where others are going
Determine how you can tie telehealth into the ACA’s provisions
Determine your best clinical options for implementing telehealth

(Hands On Telehealth) Nirav Desai via aweber.com

Ethics and HIT

Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf

patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.

Meaningful Use (MU) & Nursing

Nurses are central to ensuring Meaningful Use ...

http://www.himss.org/ASP/topics_FocusDynamic.asp?faid=395

Bowles, K. (October, 2010). Achieving Meaningful Use with Information Technology: Telehealth Research. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI),14 (3). Available at http://ojni.org/14_3/Bowles.pdf

Bowles, K.,(February, 2011) ONJNI....Achieving Meaningful Use With Decision Support Research http://tinyurl.com/4ol9r6p

CMS & MU:

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