Patient Engagement News and Articles

Patient Trust in Healthcare AI Relies on Use Case, But Familiarity Is Lacking

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Do patients trust AI in healthcare? It depends on what it’s being used for, 44 percent of patients said in a recent athenahealth/Dynata poll that was emailed to PatientEngagementHIT. But even as...

Does Broad PA Scope of Practice Impact Patient Safety & Malpractice?

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A new study led by researchers affiliated with the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) showed that expanding physician assistant/associate (PA) scope of practice does not negatively impact...

Half of Healthcare Staff Report Racism & Discrimination Against Patients

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Nearly half of healthcare providers have borne witness to healthcare discrimination, doubling down on a patient experience and health equity problem that’s shown to impact patients of color and...

Care Quality from EMS & 911 Left Wanting, Rural Disparities Emerge

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The quality of care you get when you call 911 might depend on where you live, with a new analysis of emergency medical service (EMS) systems showing geographic health disparities in clinical...

Updated HHS Health Equity Action Plan Focuses on Care Access

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HHS has unveiled the 2023 update to its Health Equity Action Plan, hitting key points like childhood health and well-being, equitable access to care, and maternal and infant health equity, among other...

Patient Clinical Needs, Provider Skill Set Misalign 57% of the Time

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“It’s not you, it’s me.” For nearly three in five patients, the clinician they meet with is a bad fit for their current medical needs, according to new Zocdoc data, presenting a...

How Can AI Chatbots Help Docs Tailor Patient Education?

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A sample of three studies presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is casting doubt on AI chatbots’ and large language models’ abilities...

How Community Health Centers Support Transitions Out of Incarceration

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As the healthcare industry continues to eye better transitions of care for patients who are recently incarcerated, community health centers agree they are poised to fill the gap, according to a new...

Half of Transgender Patients Report Bad Patient Experience

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The patient experience for those who are transgender is still being marred by poor treatment from clinicians and coverage denials from their healthcare payers, according to the US Transgender Survey...

How a Primary Care-Based Housing Instability Program Cut Outpatient Utilization

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A community health worker-led program to address housing instability was effective at reducing primary care and outpatient care overutilization, proving that addressing the social determinant of health...

HHS Launches 3 Public-Private Partnerships for Food Is Medicine Efforts

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HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra used last week’s Food is Medicine summit to unveil three new public-private partnerships with Instacart, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Feeding America, all with the...

Gender-Affirming Care Access Laws Affect 38% of Trans Youth

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Nearly two-fifths of trans youth ages 13 to 17 live in a state with legal restrictions to gender-affirming care access, which is the result of 23 states enacting such policies, according to a new KFF...

Patient Education Key as Home Medical Devices Pose Patient Safety Threat

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The move to hospital-at-home and home use of medical devices could be the biggest threat to patient safety this year, according to ECRI, prompting industry stakeholders to call for human-centered...

VA Cuts Homelessness, SDOH by 55% with Housing First Model

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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) was able to reduce homelessness by 55 percent over a 13-year period, demonstrating the power of integrating social determinants of health interventions into the...

Are Consumers Left Behind in Healthcare’s Generative AI Talks?

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In the throes of the insurgence of generative AI, healthcare has a huge blind spot: consumers. In a new report from Deloitte, experts found that most healthcare organizations are leaving behind the...

Patient-Provider Communication About Dementia Left Wanting

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Social stigma is getting in the way of patient-provider communication about Alzheimer’s and other dementias, but there’s a way around that, according to researchers from the Regenstrief...

What’s Driving Pediatric Use of Urgent Care & Retail Health?

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More kids are accessing healthcare in a retail setting, with care access in grocery store clinics, pharmacy clinics, and urgent care centers up from 2021 to 2022, according to the Centers for Disease...

Preventable Hospitalizations More Common for Black Patients

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Black Medicaid enrollees are more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization than their White counterparts, according to a new report, a trend that researchers at the Urban Institute said...

55% of Rural Orgs Lack Labor & Delivery, Cause Maternity Deserts

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Maternity deserts are a growing problem in the United States, especially for rural hospitals that have to shutter labor and delivery departments at higher rates than their urban counterparts, according...

Patient Boarding in the ED Soars by A Third at MGH, Harms Experience

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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is boarding patients in the emergency department nearly a third more often than it has in the past, marking a serious capacity problem that’s impacting...