Patient Engagement News and Articles

How Workflow Factors Sway Social Determinants of Health Screening Rates

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Primary care providers looking to increase their rates of social determinants of health screenings might consider having advanced practice providers administer them, among other factors, according to a...

Patients Say Costs, Access Drive Maternal Health Crisis in GA

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The residents of Georgia are fully aware of the maternal health crisis affecting the state—and the rest of the United States—and are calling on policymakers to do something about it in a...

Black Women Bear the Brunt of Racism’s Effect on Hypertension Risk

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Racial discrimination is linked with increased hypertension risk, illustrating the concept of weathering in healthcare, and for Black women with college degrees or higher, it’s even worse,...

Flagging Disparities Helps Locate Best Places for Cancer Screening Sites

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A new study from ChristianaCare’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute provides a roadmap for states to identify where they can put more breast cancer screening sites, a move...

How Do Income & SDOH Affect Cardiovascular Healthcare?

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Income is once again emerging as a leading social determinant of health, with two new studies showing a link between low-income and poor heart health and healthcare. The studies published in the...

Can Gen AI Improve Access to Care, Affordability? Patients Think So

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Patients are excited about the future of generative AI in healthcare, as nearly half say the technology can improve patient access to care and healthcare affordability, according to a survey from...

Healthcare Affordability Woes Affect High- and Low-Income Patients Alike

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It’s long been understood that healthcare in the United States is unaffordable for the nation’s poorest patients, but a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund shows that healthcare...

Health Orgs Look for Consolidated Patient Engagement Tech Footprint

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Patient engagement technology vendors can expect a shifting landscape as their customer base looks toward a more consolidated, consumer-centered patient engagement strategy, according to the latest...

HHS Unveils Updated Language Access Plan for Health Equity

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is cracking down on language access and patient rights to medical interpreters as a part of agency efforts to improve health equity. The HHS Language...

Breaking Down the Basics of Healthcare Consumerism

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Healthcare consumerism lingers near the top of the list of buzzwords medical professionals need to know. The concept, which recognizes the role patients play as purchasers and managers of their own...

Racism Key Social Determinant of Health Linked to 38% Risk of Stroke

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Women who have experienced racism have a 38 percent higher risk of stroke than women who have not, according to a new JAMA Network Open study, giving further credence to the weathering hypothesis in...

How to Achieve Patient Portal ‘Techquity’ & Digital Health Equity

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A group of health IT academics is laying out the argument for closing the digital divide, saying that achieving what they termed as “techquity” in patient portal adoption is actually...

Adopting Patient-Centered Care Stymied by Limited Patient-Centered Metrics

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Hospitals and health systems nationwide still don’t have the patient-centered systems in place to meet the moment on healthcare consumerism, but it isn’t because they don’t...

Need Outpaces Maternal Mental Healthcare Access in 150 Counties

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Seven in 10 counties in the United States have insufficient maternal mental healthcare access, a problem that exacerbates maternal health outcomes, according to a new assessment from the Policy Center...

HHS Honors Community Health Centers for Clinical Quality Improvement

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) have awarded this year’s round of Gold Health Center Quality Leader digital badges to...

ACO Enrollment Doesn’t Help Mental Healthcare Access, PROs

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Being enrolled in an accountable care organization (ACO) won’t do much to improve a patient’s mental healthcare access or symptom burden; in fact, ACO enrollment has proven to hamper access...

As Patient Safety Improves, Patient Experience Scores Go Down

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America’s hospitals are starting to rebound after a pandemic-imposed downturn in patient safety performance, particularly in terms of hospital-acquired infections, according to the latest fall...

Racial Health Disparities in Low-Value Care Call Attention to Bias

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A new study from researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is calling into question the individual and structural forces...

Walmart Health Dips Its Toes Into Care Coordination, Patient Engagement

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Walmart Health has unveiled two new partnerships aimed and improving the patient experience, the first of which includes collaboration with Orlando Health set up to improve care coordination and...

Public Health Communication Still Needed for 988 Mental Health Line

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The 988 helpline’s effectiveness is seriously stymied by limited public awareness of the service, prompting researchers to call for better public health communication and messaging about the...