Article: Patient-centered care – building the connected healthcare enterprise
Healthcare CIOs and clinical IT leaders together with the healthcare industry play a key role as the technology innovators and enablers linking together people and processes for better care coordination. This article focuses on their 2015 priorities and initiatives to achieve high-quality, high-touch connected care with improvements in outcomes and reductions in cost. It includes insight from four healthcare IT leaders and four distinct case studies on their institutions.
Clinical studies have long proven that patient-centered care reduces variability, improves quality in clinical practice and patient outcomes and reduces cost. This is the shared goal of healthcare’s Triple Aim: Simultaneously improving the health of the population, enhancing the experience and outcomes of the patient, and reducing per capita cost of care for the benefit of communities.
Information, knowledge and insight sit at the center of improving care. But despite great need to achieve patient-centered care, there still is great want as many healthcare systems are falling short of achieving it. Some information systems are disparate, lack interoperability and integration.
CIOs and Health IT leaders talk integration, interoperability and images – read the article
The article also includes four in-depth case studies where the CIOs and IT leaders share their goals, game plans, solutions and successes in improving the patient journey.
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, CEO and President, Sectra AB, 46 (0) 705 23 52 27
Marie Ekström, Executive Vice President, Sectra AB and President Sectra Imaging IT solutions, 46 (0)708 23 56 10
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About Sectra
Sectra was founded in 1978 and has its roots in Linköping University in Sweden. The company’s business operation includes cutting-edge products and services within the niche segments of medical systems and secure communication systems. Sectra has offices in 12 countries and operates through partners worldwide. Sales in the 2013/2014 fiscal year totaled SEK 853 million. The Sectra share is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB exchange. For more information, visit www.sectra.com
In the medical market, Sectra develops and sells IT systems and services for radiology and other image-intensive departments, orthopaedics and rheumatology. More than 1,700 hospitals, clinics and imaging centers worldwide use the systems daily. This makes Sectra one of the world-leading companies for handling digital radiology images. In Scandinavia, Sectra is the market leader with more than 50% of all film-free installations. Sectra’s systems have been installed in North America, Scandinavia and most major countries in Europe and the Far East.