Tips to Engage Patients in Accountable Care and Personal Health

1.  Make initiatives to communicate with patients using a variety of channels.

2.  Ask (lots) of questions - all parties involved.

3.  Utilize reminder and alert features in applications.

4.  Provide incentives.

5.  Think - Education!

Quick Lessons for Successful Healthcare IT Implementations (from experience)

(by Patrick Talmadge Harris – CEO & Founder, PatEx)

1.  Get other vendors on board early (hospital, physician, ACO administrators) - define goals and requirements.

2.  Focus on defined goals from the beginning.

3.  Good Project Management is essential - People that are trained in large scale implementations and workflow engineering.

4.  The truth is in the numbers - focus on ROI and Cost-Savings.