International Healthcare: Standards, Patients, and Personal Experiences – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Jessica Maxine Selby (@JessMSelby) on the topic of “International Healthcare: Standards, Patients, and Personal Experiences“.

Jess Maxine Selby considers herself a Global Citizen. Living in 4 countries over 3 continents and traveling to over 26 countries in 26 years, this accident-prone marketer has personally experienced what many countries healthcare system has to offer. Due to her passion for community service and a two-week adventure with Global Medical Brigades in Ghana, Jess chose to direct her career path towards the healthcare market.

Now she spearheads the marketing department at Info World, the first niche e-health company in Romania. Established in 2000, Info World is a leader in the Romanian healthcare market supplying software solutions to both the private and public sector, resulting in a markets share of over 40% of the country’s hospital beds. Alongside their primary partners MedicaSoft in the United States, and with contracts in England, South Africa, Venezuela and beyond, Info World brings a wealth of experience to the global healthcare sphere. From complying with international standards and security protocols to hands-on implementation experience with doctors and in hospitals, Info World has offered efficient and effective solutions that cross borders and cultures to supply complete e-health solutions.

Considering the fact that cross-cultural communication is a daily occurrence, the ease with which we can be in a new country by morning, and the rise of migration, there are some industry standards that should be internationally recognized and accepted. In a world where standardization is dissimilar in neighbor countries and even neighboring counties, interoperability is a distant possibility in developing countries, and many of today’s deaths are due to our reaction based healthcare rather than prevention focused I ask you for your opinions. E-Health is a field of endless possibility, connection, and communication; what do you dream of doing and how would you positively impact the current state of health worldwide?

We hope you’ll join us for this week’s #HITsm chat on International Healthcare.

Topics for this week’s #HITsm Chat:
T1: Have you had any personal experiences as a patient with international healthcare? If so, tell us about them! #HITsm

T2: What do you consider to be some of the biggest healthcare issues globally? Both in developing countries and developed ones. #HITsm

T3: If one worldwide healthcare system were possible, what are some capabilities you would want to see present? #HITsm

T4: Have you personally or professionally seen any changes since the E.U.’s GDPR went into action on May 28th, 2018? #HITsm

T5: Do you see any positive or negative ways we can impact healthcare on a global scale? #HITsm

Bonus: If you could travel to any international health IT conference, which would you attend? #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
9/14 – Healthcare Lessons Learned from Video Games
Hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @HealthcareScene

9/21 – Human Centered Design in Healthcare #PatientsMatter
Hosted by Jen Horonjeff (@jhoronjeff) from @Savvy_Coop

9/28 – How Does Interoperability Affect Technology Adoption in Healthcare?
Hosted by Niko Skievaski @niko_ski from @redox

10/5 – TBD
Hosted by Joy Rios (@askjoyrios) and Robin Roberts (@rrobertsehealth)

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.

   

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