HL7 Roundtable, December 7 20171

If patient education is easier for providers to deliver to their patients, more patients will receive more education on a wider variety of topics, adherence rates would increase, and health outcomes would improve.

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“Spotify for patient education”

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“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”

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Compliance with hand hygiene techniques went from 38-42% to 60% at the beginning of the trial and then increased to an average of 75% at the end of the 28-day trial. In some cases, compliance peaked at 85% or even at 100%.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25444391

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(1) streamlining the delivery of education (2) aligning education efforts with various payment incentives, while

also (3) reducing the administrative burden involved in documenting those

efforts

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We love FHIR.

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~fin~

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