Healthcare providers and policymakers have embraced health information technology (IT) as an essential component of high-quality healthcare because it has the potential to provide multiple benefits: support clinical decision making, enhance provider communication, provide clinicians with access to patient data, engage patients, and reduce errors. However, studies shows certain “unintended health IT consequences” that may occur when critical elements; such as culture, work flow, are not deeply considered or implemented successfully. Health IT system such EMR are intended to record large number of patient data, reports has indicated that health IT error has affected patients treatment causing harm and injury, and healthcare providers paying hefty sum of compensation due to such error. Therefore, having continuous program in understanding, designing, implementation are vital for healthcare systems.

In this session, latest developments of the following top 10 health-IT related safety and solutions will be discussed. We will also review international platforms and endeavors that are supporting safe implementation in such technological adoption.

The traditional way of ordering pathways for inpatients has been a thing of the past at the Ng Teng Fong Hospital (NTFGH) in Singapore. Leveraging on automation, a fully Electronic Medical Record (EMR) now enables clinicians to provide consistent, standardized care by outlining treatment for patients with common medical conditions and procedures.

Pathways are divided into steps, based on time frame or patient condition, which organize orders and clinical documentation and, in some cases, reduce the length of stay for patients with common medical problems and procedures.

This seeks to reduce human errors and bring patient safety to a higher level. The project was implemented on June 2015 with a clinical driven based system of Electronic Medical Record (EMR). The EMR effectively replaces with paper record where the doctors enter their orders and clinical documentation into the integrated health system. With this it facilities doctor and reduce their time in ordering process and help them to have a consistent, standardized care for the patient.

 As organizations adopt more electronic medical records and incorporate the deluge of new data from genomics, pathology and medical internet of things, care providers will need to transform their IT infrastructure. Traditional silos must be replaced with new approaches to enable valuable insight from their data to help improve the quality and efficiency of care. Learn how Vendor Neutral Archives and Data Lakes are the foundation on the journey to precision medicine.

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Increasing prevalence of chronic conditions in younger populations, rapid advances in expensive health care technologies, variability in compliances (by both consumers and providers), poor care coordination, and the use of medical advances in traditional additive way instead of innovatively have contributed to poor health care outcomes despite steady increases in health expenditure. While a number of care models such as managed care and accountable care have been implemented to address care coordination and care outcome issues, effective care coordination and outcome improvement remain highly challenging or even illusive in healthcare systems, which have been characterized as ultra-large scale.

This presentation will discuss how standard-based care planning and coordination tools can help to transform healthcare towards true collaborative care model, improve patient engagement and conformance; and addresses implementation challenges and lessons learnt.

• Coverage of primary drivers of public healthcare and coverage of primary drivers for private hospital providers (from an Western Australian perspective). Also consideration of information flows within Public and Private healthcare systems.

• Discussion around HIMSS Continuity of Care Maturity Model (CCMM) and how it can be applied and interpreted regarding ICT Interoperability with examples around private operation of public hospitals. The examples would cover areas from HL7 demographics, results and movements through to DiCOM exchange and other interfaces.

• Suggestions around using the HIMSS CCMM to direct and advise attempts for ICT Interoperability between the Public and Private environments.

Chemotherapy treatment may cause unexpected side effects and patient education will promote knowledge and understanding to improve self-care advocacy. This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of integrating a new method of patient education by a Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) program with the current method of Face-to-Face education in the explanation of chemotherapy side effects. The CAI is expected to improve quality of life as the primary outcome and the secondary outcome to measure the self-care method to reduce the severity of chemotherapy side effects.