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Nurse Web Project: Northern Ohio Health Information Systems Society (NoHIMSS) Conference (December 9, 2011)

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Key Points

• Changes in healthcare delivery related to healthcare information technology:

• Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

• What does that mean?

• Strategies to achieve this:

• Patient Centered Medical Home

• Use of telemedicine

• eAdoption becoming a trend

• Employer marketplace

• Single employer doesn’t have a large voiceà consider healthcare coalition to engage multiple stakeholders

• Innovation is the “in” thing

• Push forward to find new healthcare solutions to address emerging healthcare issues

• Itriage new application

• Revisiting technologies needed by M.D./ healthcare providers and patient

• M.D.

• Electronic prescribing

• Speech recognition

• Clinical groupware

• Patient

• E-communications - text, chat

• Social media

• Phone apps

• Role of care coordinator/nurse navigator

• Typically fulfilled by nurses

• Nurses as guide and resource for patients to find what they need to play an active role in their wellness and/or disease management

• Stressing importance of beginning discharge planning on day 1 of hospital admission to decrease likelihood of hospital readmission

• Baby boomer population

• Implications of Increased consummation of healthcare resources that can reach maximum capacity of Cleveland healthcare institutions

• SmartRoom technology

• Revolutionizing the patient and clinician experience: patient information and education with just one touch, literally.

• Featured on Discovery Health

• See more here: www.smartroomsolutions.com