Role of Health IT to Improve Care Transitions
Event Date:
September 26, 2019 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET
Description:
AHRQ hosted a free webinar to discuss how health IT can improve care transitions for patients with complex conditions. Specifically, presenters discussed their work on smartphone-based applications to improve care coordination, an interactive patient-centered discharge toolkit to promote self-management, and the role of clinical decision support in improving care transitions for patients with multiple chronic diseases.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants should be able to:
- Describe the role of health IT in improving health outcomes during care transitions for patients with complex conditions.
- Describe how mHealth technology can be used to improve care coordination and transitions.
- Identify barriers and facilitators of implementation, adoption, and use of a patient-centered discharge toolkit.
- Discuss the use of clinical decision support tools to improve the quality of transitions for adults with multiple chronic diseases.
Speakers:
Research Assistant Professor
Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Northwestern University
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Family, Community & Health Systems Sciences
State University of New York at Buffalo University
Moderator:
Commander Derrick L. Wyatt
USPHS Commissioned Corps, Grants Manager
Division of Digital Healthcare Research , Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement at AHRQ
Eligible providers were able to earn up to 1.5 CE/CME contact hours for participating in the live webinar.
If you have any questions, please send an email to DigitalHealthcareResearch@ahrq.hhs.gov.