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Revolutionizing Healthcare: Collaborate to Innovate!
Innovating Healthcare: Sustainable Repositioning Through Cross-Industry Cluster Collaboration
Harnessing Cross-industry Collaboration Towards Patient Engagement and Continuity of Care
A new era of healthcare has been ushered with cross-industry collaboration driving patient engagement and continuity of care. The involvement of patients in their health management, or patient engagement, is becoming imperative for product delivery to generate quality outcomes. Engaged patients are more effectively able to control their health and thus are less likely to require costly health care or to compromise the quality of care. In pursuit of that goal, the healthcare industry has embraced digital health innovation. Patients can now access personalized health information on mobile apps or wearable devices, be reminded about taking their meds on a telehealth platform or remotely seek consultation with providers. Through these technologies, patients become active participants in their care, instead of passive recipients.
Especially for Telehealth, it has turned out to be a game changer, helping extend the reach of healthcare and keep patients under monitoring. For example, remote monitoring devices track patients’ vital signs and alert care teams to problems promptly. The following, this interconnection between technology and patient engagement is extremely important as the first key to ensuring continuity of care, especially in cases of chronic conditions. Continuity of care means that a continuous plan of treatment is coordinated and that a patient goes from one healthcare setting to the other. Examples such as the Patient-Centered Medical Home encourage relationships between patients and primary care providers to be longer term and assist with the delivery of cohorts of care.
Continuity of care is furthered by the use of technological solutions like electronic health records (EHR). These are systems that smooth the patient information sharing across the different healthcare providers reducing errors and communication problems. This continuity can be strengthened by multidisciplinary collaboration among healthcare professionals, who can work in concert…
