Healthcare IT News February 11, 2019
At the HIMSS19 Precision Medicine Summit, John Halamka and other healthcare leaders described how policy, technology, clinical processes and patient engagement need to evolve to make it a reality for primary care.
Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, traveled 400,000 miles in 2018 – jetting all over the world, from China to India to Scotland to Scandinavia.
On those journeys, he’s seen how care is delivered in very different ways. In China, for instance (he’s been there 35 times), there is no primary care. As a result, patients can self-select any provider, leading to a scattered lifetime record across diverse provider sites.
In India, where active tuberculosis is widespread, access to care is much more difficult,...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor