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Delivering Patient-Centered Care Means Decluttering the Digital Health Landscape

HIT Consultant

To effectively achieve this, a digital solution must improve the quality of care in an end-to-end fashion across all phases of care: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care management. This comprehensive approach is necessary, since improving healthcare quality at every phase drives better outcomes and downstream savings.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

This brings up the concept of wearable digital health technologies for monitoring. Approximately 25% of patients experience an adverse event in US hospitals, with over 40% caused by preventable errors. Some infections can be prevented through their respective vaccinations. Why is this so important?