Health care systems globally are facing major transformation agendas, driven by issues such as escalating costs, quality and safety concerns, evolving governance structures, and evolving care delivery models. At the same time, they are struggling to manage increasing patient volumes, with rising incidence and cost of chronic disease. Sustainability is increasingly linked to the effective use of information technology. In response, Ontario is ramping up major investments to encourage connectivity and provide access to integrated clinical data. But we’re also learning that being connected is not sufficient.
Something is happening that holds even greater potential - the potential to become smarter. IBM’s Smarter Healthcare initiative shares a vision characterized by continuous optimization of clinical process and pathways - smart work and new intelligence - e-enabling process by engaging stakeholders across the Internet to increase safety and improve experience, employing remote monitoring, triggering timely alerts, and allowing us to “see where we currently cannot see”. And, most importantly, using analytics to convert data into intelligent health system performance, publishing metrics and changing behaviour. In a word - becoming smarter.
This webcast will outline a vision for “Smarter Healthcare”, highlight efforts at The Ottawa Hospital and Trillium Healthcare to ‘work smarter’, and provide a blueprint to enable a series of quick wins and tangible improvements.
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