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August 27-28, 2018 | London, UK
International Conference on
Healthcare and Health Management
Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
Joint Event
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Journal of Public Health Policy and Planning | Volume: 2
Primary Care 2.0: Use Information Technology to enhance care quality and deliver high value care
Cheng-Kai Kao
University of Chicago, USA
T
he modern primary healthcare is entering a new stage-
a truly patient-centered, personalized care model with
the aid of health information technolgy (IT), such as mobile
technology, patient portals, telemedicine, and online patient
communities. These innovative health IT tools significantly
enhance chronic disease management, mitiligate health
disparities, personalize individual treatments, strengthen
patient education, empower patient self-management, provide
homemonitoring, and solidify the patient-provider relationship.
However, challenges remain before the full adoption. For
example, healthcare providers now have access to a bevy
of mobile health apps in almost every domain of medicine
that can be used at the point-of-care to facilitate a variety of
tasks. Certain prescribed apps have shown promising results
in randomized controlled trials. Nonetheless, with estimated
over 165,000 mobile health apps in major app stores and lack
of supervising authorities, it is challenging to know how to best
use these apps. Therefore, today’s frontline providers must
not only be compassionate healthcare professionals, but also
become cutting-edge leaders in ‘primary care 2.0.’ In order to
enhance care quality, reduce healthcare cost, achieve better
outcome, and meet the ultimate goal of improving population
health, the primary care providers have to adopt and learn
how to best utilize information technology in their day-to-
day practice to deliver high value care in this modern world.
e
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ckkao@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu