SYM1-2 INFORMATICS CHALLENGES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES

Thursday, October 18, 2012: 3:16 PM
Regency Ballroom A/B (Hyatt Regency)
Applied Health Economics (AHE)

Mary K. Goldstein, MD, MS, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
Patient-centered care calls for coordinating recommendations for the patient across multiple comorbidities, while taking account of patient preferences and prognoses for both life expectancy and also other patient-important outcomes such as mobility and functional status. Challenges and opportunities abound in developing new architectures to enable interaction of multiple disease guidelines and standardization of relevant patient data.