How Health IT Helps and Hurts Patients – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Amanda (@LALupusLady) on the topic of “How Health IT Helps and Hurts Patients (Especially Those with Chronic Conditions).”

Health IT is a powerful tool. It has changed the way patients, especially people with chronic illnesses live with and manage their care. As a woman living with multiple autoimmune illnesses for over three decades, my perspective is unique as I have seen the shift and how providers have been eager to adopt technology into their practice and recently experienced a doctor’s office where the fax machine is still the primary means of communication.

In my patient experience, I have chosen to adopt and use Health IT to assist me in managing my chronic care. Whether I am tracking my symptoms, keeping a food diary, or putting on a VR headset to help me relieve my pain, Health IT has improved my patient experience. While at the same time, the fact that with all the advances in Health IT that not every advance is a step forward for healthcare. There is frustration by patients that (in 2018) EHR developers have not yet developed a way for various platforms and institutions to connect to create one complete healthcare record for one patient.

Next week, I am proud that I will be at #HITExpo to share my patient experience at Healthcare Scene’s inaugural event in New Orleans. Understanding the value and insight that patients have can build an empathy, which I feel will directly improve the way Health IT collaborations work together.

Join me for this week’s #HITsm chat. Let’s start the conversation.

T1: How is Health IT (Apps, Devices and New Technology) helping streamline the patient experience (especially for people living with chronic conditions)? #HITsm

T2: How is Health IT hindering (hurting) the patient experience (especially for people living with chronic conditions)? #HITsm

T3: What Health IT companies/developers have made a positive impact on your life? How? If you are a patient, what Health IT has directly improved your patient experience? #HITsm

T4: How can Health IT work together with patient communities to improve outcomes and engagement? #HITsm

T5: What can you do to support Health IT “collaborations that work” with patients, especially those living with chronic conditions? #HITsm

Bonus: What are you most looking forward to at #HITExpo? #HITsm

Wishing you a Healthy and Happy Lupus Awareness Month. Can’t wait to chat together.

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
6/1 – #HITExpo Hiatus
The #HITsm chat will be on hiatus this week with the Health IT Expo happening in New Orleans. Please join in on the conversation happening on the #HITExpo conference hashtag.

6/8 – How Technology and Healthcare Should Gracefully Collide to Provide the Best Patient Experience
Hosted by Jeanne Bliss (@jeannebliss) and Michelle Chaffee (@mdchaffee)

6/15 – TBD
Hosted by Janice McCallum (@janicemccallum)

6/22 – IT and Affordability, Care for the Poor, Population Health in Low-income Areas
Hosted by Lenny Liebmann (@LennyLiebmann)

6/29 – TBD
Hosted by Cathy Turner (@MEDITECH_Nurses) from @MEDITECH

7/6 – TBD
Hosted by Lea Chatham (@LeaChatham)

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

If you’re searching for the latest #HITsm chat, you can always find the latest #HITsm chat and schedule of chats here.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

1 Comment

  • My God man, will it ever stop. The holy grail of interoperability is sitting in the palm of your hand, called a smart phone. Patients shouldn’t be relying on mouse clicks to get a comprehensive record of their health. Do banks, financial institutions have interoperability? NO. Chase doesn’t share account information with Santander Bank, if you have accounts in both, you or your accountant reconciles – no interoperability. STOP, please STOP.

    Same with AI, AI is pattern recognition going at the speed of a speeded up cartoon, it’s not empathy, it can’t rate a restaurant’s food or service, it can only tell you what it is told – GIGO.

    When are we going to trash the click and go to the voice. Voice recognitions tools have improved greatly, an EMR with voice doesn’t care about workflow – it follows the Dr. No scribes. Voice to text gives the Dr and the biller what to work with, add an “AI” component and claims will go out.

    Go DPC instead – it’s time to stop the talk and do the walk regarding healthcare. The real and more important question – Do we really care about health or are the GREEDY, SEEDY still going to steer this ship?

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