Enabling Integrated Care: Harnessing Personal Health Systems for better outcomes across the care continuum

Drawing on the experience of healthcare providers who are already using personal health systems to support home care for chronic disease management, the workshop will provide a forum to explore opportunities and identify solutions for integrating Personal Health systems in routine healthcare.

Focusing on the hands-on experience of clinicians, the workshop will outline key benefits of Personal Health Systems (PHS) such as reduced emergency department attendance and repeat hospitalisation, improved patient compliance and human resource capacity.

Speakers and participants will discuss how they have overcome (or intend to overcome) some of the key interoperability challenges inherent in using personal health systems as part of routine healthcare, such as:

• integration of PHS into the clinical workflow;
• human resource organisation and co-operation with informal care providers;
• patient rights (consent, privacy, access);
• professional liability and insurance;
• Identification and authentication of patients and professionals;
• Interoperability in a multi-vendor environment.

The workshop will be hosted in the World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition.

Event email: Alessandra.marino@thecentre.eu