Chicago, Ill. (PRWEB) March 31, 2016
The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced it has exclusively endorsed the Patient and Clinician Education Platform from iHealthEngines. Following a proprietary due diligence process, AHA Solutions, a division of Health Forum, the strategic business enterprise of the American Hospital Association (AHA), awards the AHA Endorsement to products and services that help member hospitals and health care organizations achieve operational excellence.
As health care shifts from volume- to value-based care, hospitals are seeking to improve individual patient and population health outcomes. One important strategy is to engage health care users through education. Effective education aids patients, families and caregivers in understanding the patients’ conditions and treatments and in making better-informed decisions about their care. In addition, it raises the likelihood that patients will adhere to their care plans ― helping to improve outcomes and patients’ satisfaction with their care. Improved patient education also can reduce readmissions by more than 30 percent.(1)
To empower patients to actively participate in their care pre-op and post-discharge, iHealthEngines’ cloud-based Patient and Clinician Education Platform provides educational content and remote contact pathways. These are personalized to each patient’s conditions, language, medical codes and other characteristics. The platform also helps clinicians in team-based settings deliver better, more personalized care throughout the care continuum — from hospital to home — without added workload. iHealthEngines’ platform applies to organizations ranging in size from large integrated health care systems and medium-sized hospitals, to smaller independent medical practices.
With the help of proprietary automation, the solution enables clinicians to manage the care of patients with serious medical conditions by prescribing personalized information and remote patient contact pathways apps. This prescribed content educates patients on their care and enables them to feed information (such as treatment adherence for congestive heart failure, or post-surgery progress and recovery) back to physicians in real time and between clinic visits.
Patients use their own PCs, tablets or mobile phones to securely access the platform’s content. They can also use the platform to communicate with their clinicians by reporting on their progress, asking questions about their care plan and providing feedback regarding their satisfaction with their care. As patients progress, they complete health literacy quizzes and questionnaires related to their progress and care experience to earn Personal Learning and Engagement credits redeemable for discounts, co-pay coupons or other health care benefits. As these incentive-based credits motivate patients to learn and improve health behavior and outcomes, they allow physicians to measure patient activation and follow up on patients’ progress.
Hospital training managers can also use the platform to train and engage clinicians and workforce by creating effective personalized training programs, tracking completion and measuring the impact of every training module on organizational performance objectives.
“The AHA endorsed iHealthEngines’ solution because of its credits and incentives based education; “learn anytime, anywhere” mobile convenience; and unique patient/provider communication and monitoring capabilities. It also offers unparalleled levels of personalization, interoperability with other systems, and content-source flexibility, all of which contribute to more effective patient education and engagement,” said Tim Steffl, chief operating & development officer, AHA Solutions. “By delivering timely information to the patient that supports effective care transition, and helping train clinicians in best practices, iHealthEngines’ platform contributes to better health outcomes and lower readmissions.”
“The AHA’s exclusive endorsement of the iHealthEngines Patient and Clinician Education technology is a powerful validation of our technology leadership, strong fit for health systems, and the positive response our technology has received from clinicians,” said Harish P.K. Chidambaran, president and CEO of iHealthEngines. “IHE and its interactive personalization and delivery technology is critical for health systems to deliver personalized and value-based care, and implement a transformative patient relationship management program. We are excited about partnering with the AHA and its members to further the mission to improve patient and physician engagement, enhance outcomes and reduce cost of care.”
(1) "A Reengineered Hospital Discharge Program to Decrease Rehospitalization. A Randomized Trial," by Brian W. Jack, MD, et al., in the February 3, 2009, Annals of Internal Medicine, 150(3), pp. 178-187)
About the AHA
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is a not-for-profit association of health care provider organizations and individuals that are committed to the improvement of health in their communities. The AHA is the national advocate for its members, who include nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations and 43,000 individual members. Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. Visit http://www.aha.org to learn more.
About AHA Solutions
AHA Solutions is a division of Health Forum, the strategic business enterprise of the American Hospital Association dedicated to serving member hospitals by helping them identify the optimal solutions to their most pressing market challenges. Through the AHA Endorsement, along with educational programs featuring peers and industry experts, AHA Solutions supports the decision-making process for hospitals looking for partners to help with clinical integration, information technology, talent management, cultural transformation, financial sustainability, the patient flow and other key challenges.
AHA Solutions is proud to reinvest its profits in the AHA Mission: To advance the health of individuals and communities. For more information, contact AHA Solutions at info(at)solutions.org or 800.242.4677. Also connect with us via Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
About iHealthEngines Inc.
Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metro area, iHealthEngines is the industry’s first ever incentives and credits based Patient and Clinician Education and Engagement. The mobile first cloud platform leverages a transformational content aggregation, personalization and communication technology and power of Personal Medical Education (PME) credit scores and incentives to extend the reach of clinicians from hospital to home. Using iHealthEngines, Health Systems can seamlessly engage with their patient population through personalized interactive education, remote contact pathways, transition of care, remote care and adherence management, telehealth, and patient surveys. iHealthEngines provides Health Systems with must need capabilities to increase revenues, reduce costs, and meet Stage 2 and Stage 3 Meaningful Use and Quality Reporting requirements, and Physician Rating Requirements. IHE is also used to deliver personalized CME, staff training, and quality improvement programs to provider networks and clinical staff. Visit http://www.ihealthengines.com for more information.
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
American Hospital Association:
Marie Watteau
Vice President, Media Relations and Digital Media
American Hospital Association
202.626.2351
mwatteau(at)aha.org
iHealthEngines:
Harish Chidambaran
President and CEO
iHealthEngines
650.248.9874
harish(at)ihealthengines.com