Driving Innovation in Healthcare Forward Requires New Ways of Thinking – #HITsm Chat Topic

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 1/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Constance Sjoquist (@CASjoquist), Chief Content Officer at HLTH.co on the topic of “Driving Innovation in Healthcare Forward Requires New Ways of Thinking.”

Traditional channels for ideating, learning, and sharing ideas, products and services that can improve healthcare outcomes, lower costs and make it easier on everyone involved are changing. Health plan members, budding consumers, both new and long-time patients, sponsor payers, employers, providers, medical device companies, pharma companies and start-ups and investors all have a vested interest. Not to mention the various federal and state-level government agencies that regulate all of these constituents.

So how can all of us – ALL OF US – work together to improve healthcare outcomes and lower costs – all while making it easier on all of us?

This chat raises and explores some ideas to help drive innovation in healthcare forward. We need new ways of thinking. Gigantic conferences and one-sided media movements are not cutting it.

Come join this exchange on how we can ALL participate and contribute in the drive to make healthcare more innovative.

Topics for This Week’s #HITsm Chat:
T1: What are the primary reasons why the transformation of healthcare in the United States in 2018 and beyond is so difficult and challenging? #HITsm

T2: How can plan members, budding healthcare consumers, new & long-time patients, their sponsor payers, employers, providers, medical device companies, pharma companies & start-ups – help to reduce healthcare costs while improving quality of care? #HITsm

T3: In what ways can healthcare conferences, forums and media – traditional and digital – help to drive innovation in the health industry? And help to reduce healthcare costs while improving quality of care? #HITsm

T4: In what specific ways can disruptive technologies like #AI, #BigData, #MachineLearning, AR/VR, #3DPrinting, #PrecisionMedicine, Mobile & #IoT drive & support transformation of #healthcare? #HITsm (How’s that for too many hashtags!)

T5: Where can plan members, #healthcare consumers, new & long-time patients, their sponsor payers, employers, providers, medical device companies, pharma companies & start-ups look for examples of successful industry transformation? #HITsm

Bonus: What‘s one thing #healthcare conference organizers, the media that promote #healthcare & those that attend & support conferences help to move healthcare forward? What are they currently not doing? #HITsm

Upcoming #HITsm Chat Schedule
1/19 – How is society’s drive for everything “on demand” changing healthcare?
Hosted by Darin Vander Well (@DarinVanderWell) from @docutap

1/26 – Patient Portals and Chronic Disease Management
Hosted by Monica Stout (@MI_turnaround) from Medicasoft

2/2 – TBD

2/9 – TBD

2/16 – TBD

2/23 – TBD

We look forward to learning from the #HITsm community! As always, let us know if you’d like to host a future #HITsm chat or if you know someone you think we should invite to host.

If you’re searching for the latest #HITsm chat, you can always find the latest #HITsm chat and schedule of chats here.

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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