The Annual Hackathon for Students Who Want to Transform the Future of Health Informatics
The 2nd annual H.I.T. HACK Challenge will be chaired by Ben Robinson. The results and winner of will be recognized at the Health IT Leadership Summit on December 7, 2016.
We are looking for the next team of DARING and INNOVATIVE problem-solvers with an idea that can revolutionize the Health Informatics landscape!
Open to all of Georgia’s post-secondary students, the 2nd annual H.I.T. HACK Challenge, will showcase Georgia’s post-secondary education system as a source for skilled Healthcare IT talent.
Not a Coder? Don’t worry! There’s a role for everyone at HIT HACK. We’re calling all clinicians, marketers, designers, brilliant minds, and entrepreneurs too!
Don’t have a team? Come join us for the 2nd annual HIT Hack and if you don’t have a team now, that’s okay! We’ll have team formation and ideation events geared towards helping you find people to work with. They may turn out to be your new best friends (or future business partners).
Ready to get started? Register Today!
- Connected Healthcare
- Patient Engagement
- Personal Health Records
- Wellness & Pop Health
- Other
Historically fragmented, the ability to share patient data across the continuum of care, including between different hospitals, insurance companies and employers is still challenging. The ability to share and analyze this data has a positive impact on patient care, cost reductions, and prevention programs. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have the potential to bridge this gap by providing a direct link between patient records at various clinical sites; however, the creation of ‘interoperable’ systems has been lagging.Achieving success with interoperability is highly dependent upon the ability of multiple healthcare IT systems to share data in a meaningful way. Essentially, this speaks to the need for healthcare providers to communicate electronically with multiple internal stakeholders and outside providers. Ultimately, interoperable systems are critical to achieving these goals.
Regrettably, current EHR Cialis systems continue to struggle in this area as the rate generic Cialis 20mg of digitization increases. This deprives the healthcare system of the connectivity that was envisioned in the Affordable Care Act and limits success in achieving desired efficiencies from the healthcare system. With this problem in mind, what solution(s) would you propose to existing EHR systems to facilitate the easy and smooth transmittal of data and patient information between them? What further applications of this data transmittal improvement would greatly impact how this data is analyzed and used?
Healthcare organizations are striving to engage patients in their care, articulating strategies and investing in technologies such as patient portals that serve to pull patients into the conversation about their health and make them active agents in maintaining and improving it. But analysis reveals that when leaders consider patient engagement, they question whether they are currently on a path that will lead to the increased patient involvement required to improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs.For many reasons, patient portals have emerged as the key to engagement strategies. Yet, while these offer key aspects to a successful engagement strategy, including convenience and functionality, many doubt that portals alone can realize the desired benefits seen in effective patient engagements.
Ultimately, a complete set of processes and systems are needed that create and maintain a clear patient engagement strategy. True, interoperable, next-generation portals based on a unified health informatics platform can offer the single source functionality that will enable patients to become partners in their own care. However, are these systems sufficient to encourage patients to take an active role in their healthcare? Are other, related systems and process also needed to pull patients into the process? What systems, processes… would you recommend be provided to patients by providers that would foster the engagement from patients that will establish the level of engagement envisioned by many and essential to securing the promise of our healthcare system?
The Personal Health Record market faces many challenges. This includes the challenge of accessing personal health information. Many issues drive this problem, including lack of a common digital, computable format. Even when personal health information is in a common data standard, that data is often fraught with errors. Then there is the issue of simply getting the data from an institution. Many institutions have a patient portal allowing a patient to access and view their personal health information (most often a limited subset of the patient’s complete record) but very few institutions actually support the portability of a patient’s personal health information.While this is a bold step forward in the evolution of our healthcare system, much needs to be done to smooth out these challenges and render personal health information and records easily accessible and transportable. Please propose some solutions to these challenges.