During a pandemic, many people realize that they want to manage their own health and wellness. However, they cannot do this alone.
Dr. Anne Snowdon, Director of Scientific Research at HIMSS Analytics, said in her presentation at HIMSS22 APAC.
In the keynote, “Transforming digital health as a strategy to advance equity in global health systems”, Dr. Snowdon said, “Digital connectivity makes sense with care team” will help build health knowledge and empower patients to make data-driven decisions about their health.
Personalize care delivery
It has become imperative to build digitally supportive care models to help different segments of the population achieve their desired health outcomes.
However, there is no one size fits all care model. Models suitable for the elderly may not be suitable for younger patients.
Dr. Snowdon said: “Personalizing care delivery to the unique needs and living circumstances of segments of our population becomes an important pathway towards a healthy healthcare ecosystem. much more efficient digital economy.
Arrive there
But how does a health system get to that stage where they can personalize care delivery?
They must first measure their progress towards digital maturity, Dr. Snowdon said.
She recommends HIMSS’s Digital Health Index (DHI), an online tool that measures a health organization’s progress in digital health transformation in four dimensions: governance and force. workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and human health.
“It gives you a clear view of your digital strengths, how you leverage and mobilize those digital strengths to grow and strengthen further. That assessment of the ecosystem. Your digital health now helps you understand what is the strategic road map you need Dr. Snowdon to explain further.
Digitally mature organizations – those scoring higher than 300 out of 400 in the DHI – have moved from a response and response strategy to a predictive and action based basis to address emerging health risks rise. Dr. Snowdon also shared that based on their research, those organizations also outperform other medical institutions in terms of productivity and patient experience.
“What success looks like in digital health is being able to personalize care to each individual’s very unique circumstances and map the health and wellness goals that each individual needs. It’s no longer just the clinical path; it’s how those clinical pathways now help individuals manage their health and work toward achieving their health goals. their personal health rather than the goals that health systems tend to prescribe,” she said.
Achieving justice
Being able to personalize care to target segments of the population also means bridging the gap in access to care. But how to achieve that?
“The only way we can achieve justice is [by] understand what results we achieve for whom; who is achieving great results; how do we learn from it; and who doesn’t get those results. So for those who aren’t getting results, we can be much more agile and pivot and personalize care delivery to meet the needs of everyone everywhere, “Dr. Snowdon said.
Achieving equity is not just about digitizing the health system. She concludes: “This is about re-imagining and enabling digitally assisted digital care delivery models that don’t wait for the patient to come to the system, but they actually allow the system to go to them anywhere,” she concluded.
