Achieving the Vision of Healthcare ’ s Future

On February 6, a set of key priorities for the future of healthcare was released by AdvancedMD. I talked to Tim Costantino, vice president and head of product, about challenges and potential barriers to meeting these goals. AdvancedMD is a cloud-based service merging an EHR with a health care management solution, and has recently announced upgrades to its EHR, practice management, and patient engagement functions. Believing in “self-service” and “trusting the patient,” AdvancedMD focuses on things that should improve both efficiency and the patient experience in their document. The practices they herald look valuable and necessary, so I decided to focus on what could get in the way when I talked to Costantino. For reference, a summary of the AdvancedMD predictions follows. Medical offices will adopt a broader selection of patient-centric payment capabilities. Mental healthcare will become an integral component of the healthcare experience. There will be a resurgence of independent practices with more physicians choosing to take full ownership over their offerings and administrative processes. Medical practice owners will lean more heavily into workflow and process automation improvements that enable informed decision-making capabilities based on highly-accurate data – significantly boosting the practice’s financial performance. Remote patient monitoring solutions will gain popularity, vastly improving patient outcomes and care management. Medical ...
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