The Liver Meeting 2023-Public Health SIG - Applied Health Informatics in Action

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The video transcript from a symposium discusses the use of clinical decision support tools in enhancing care for patients with liver disease, specifically cirrhosis. Speakers emphasized utilizing tools like dashboards to identify overdue surveillance and reduce hospital admissions for cirrhosis complications. Challenges such as coding inaccuracies, provider time constraints, and patient non-compliance were highlighted. Real patient scenarios showed how dashboard reviews led to interventions preventing readmissions, stressing guideline-directed management and post-discharge care. Strategies were discussed to improve care coordination, medication management, and patient follow-up to reduce readmission rates and enhance outcomes for cirrhosis patients.<br />The speakers also covered the role of clinical informatics in hepatology, detailing clinical decision support tools as providing knowledge to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools such as alerts, reminders, and guidelines were discussed, emphasizing timely information delivery. Challenges like alert fatigue and AI usage for predictive models were addressed, with emphasis on interoperability and data sharing for broader AI implementation. Lastly, the importance of mentorship, collaboration, and training in AI and informatics for advancing patient care in hepatology was highlighted.

Keywords

clinical decision support tools

cirrhosis

dashboards

surveillance

hospital admissions

coding inaccuracies

provider time constraints

patient non-compliance

guideline-directed management

care coordination

medication management

readmission rates

clinical informatics