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Please join us as Dr. Kvedar and his guests, Dr. Alex Baker, Chief Operating Officer at Partners Community Healthcare, and Dr. Michael Myers, Medical Director at Hawthorn Medical Associates (part of Partners Healthcare) discuss how connected health strategies are working to address the growing diabetes health crisis.  Their discussion will include a report on DiabetesConnect, a new practice-based diabetes management program being implemented at Partners HealthCare.

Here’s what connected health expert Joe Kvedar, MD, had to say about connected health strategies and how these programs can apply to better manage diabetes care:

“Payment reform will be a catalyst to transform our broken health care system, but without a more well-rounded health information technology strategy – efforts to date have focused chiefly on provider adoption of electronic medical records – providers will not have the tools to truly move to the population-based, health-oriented system that current policy makers envision."

"The key to solving the cost and quality dilemma is to employ strategies that involve the patient more in his/her health care decision making. The idea is to offload as much medical decision-making as possible from providers. They are a scarce commodity and expensive labor. A strategy highly focused on physician EMR adoption will not achieve this goal. Rather, another set of tools is required. We call this set of tools ‘connected health’."

Learning Objectives

Participants will gain an understanding of the following:

• The vision, experience and perspectives of a major provider network involved in connected health initiatives, working to redesign healthcare delivery for the future.
• The case experience of hospital and community-based primary care practices in implementing a connected health program to help diabetes patients better manage their care
• A discussion of additional opportunities relating to connected health initiatives, including monitoring programs in other chronic conditions such as heart failure and hypertension, as well as a look at current and future trends

Who Should Attend

Interested attendees would include:

Attendees would represent the following organizations:

Price

Individual Registration Fee: $225. Web Summit CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event. Corporate Site licensing also available. Click here to register or call  209.577.4888  209.577.4888 We look forward to your participation in this event!

 

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