Learn how digital technology enhances physicians’ day-to-day lives and mitigates problems in care coordination.

Technology is driving new avenues of communication, supporting the transformation of fee-for-service healthcare into collaborative medicine.

Successful care management is contingent upon teamwork and shared decision-making between physicians, caregivers and patients. Digital health technologies that streamline communication, like interactive decision aids, mobile apps and web-based resources, are changing how physicians and patients talk about health management both inside and outside the exam room.

This ebook examines how today’s digital technology enhances physicians’ day-to-day lives and helps mitigate problems in care coordination.

It addresses providers’ anxieties surrounding the growing adoption of digital health and key opportunities for improving overall quality and efficiency, including reduced clerical burden, interoperability, more targeted interventions, enhanced patient-physician relationships and lower readmission rates.

Chapters include:

• Combating the “Digital Snake Oil of the 21st Century”
• Enhancing Patient-Physician Relationships
• Closing Communication Gaps: Digital Technologies in Team-Based Care
• From Meaningful Use to Meaningful Insights: Targeting Patients with the Greatest Needs
• Managing Patients with Complex Needs