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Gareth Matt
HALL PICKETT
Transforming from Systems of
Record to Systems of Engagement
and Insight with Microsoft and our
partners Planet Earth
Population Health. Working within the Ecosystem to
improve Health in Ireland.
Director
Worldwide Health
Mobility, Microsoft
Technology can
absolutely help clinicians
communicate and work
better, and provide
insights into their data to
help improve care.
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Coming from the Worldwide health programme in
Microsoft HQ, Gareth focussed on the importance of
helping care teams collaborate with each other and
their patients. This, as well as enabling health care
teams to deliver insights and analytics on their data,
is proving to be some of the main focus areas of
transformation in health worldwide.
He highlighted some best practices from around
the world and hoped to stimulate some ideas
on how you can help engage with clinicians and
patients better going forward. His core belief is
that technology can ABSOLUTELY help clinicians
communicate and work better, and that providing
insights into their data helps to improve care.
General Manager
Cerner Ireland
Matt provided a high level overview of Cerner’s
approach to the application of technology to
population health, demonstrating two examples of
where this is used, one in California and one closer
to home.
The key point Matt made was that organizations
need to know, to manage and to engage people to
fundamentally change and improve the health of a
community. Analytics can help identify populations
based on a set of criteria so that we can most
effectively engage people, their families and their
care team. Once strategies have been implemented
to engage members, analytics can help to manage
outcomes by monitoring performance and adjusting
strategies as needed to attain the best possible
results.
Why Change? Because in
summary, we are getting
older, sicker, fatter and
we also expect access
to the latest drugs and
healthcare technology.
Healthcare is too
important to stay the
same.
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