The digital patient experience is becoming more important than ever, with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures showing that more than half of patients use the internet to find...
Patient data access is at an all-time high, with new data from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT showing three in five patients being offered and accessing their digital health...
American patients are split as to whether they are comfortable with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their healthcare experience, according to survey data from Propeller Insights on behalf of...
Providence health system knows something about digital tools in the healthcare consumer world, with its latest incubated technology, Praia Health, being proof of the power of stakeholder input and design.
As a health system serving...
Healthcare providers and payers should continue to set their sights on a digital patient experience, with new data from Wakefield Research fielded on behalf of health IT company Kyruus showing that...
Zocdoc has unveiled a new suite of tools to enable patient access and practice management, part of the Zocdoc Practice Solutions, the company announced in a press release.
The technologies will...
While most health system social determinants of health initiatives are fundamentally about uncovering and fulfilling social needs, those efforts would not be complete without the health IT necessary to support them.
Indeed, programs that...
Functionality is the name of the game for patient safety and compliance technology vendors, with healthcare organizations foremost prioritizing technology functionality when making purchasing...
Patient advocacy group OpenNotes wants to make it easier for patients to take advantage of open clinical notes through the launch of its online resource, How To Use Open Notes.
Open notes is the...
No patient-centered care mission is complete without patient engagement metrics.
Patient engagement metrics help healthcare organizations assess the extent to which patients are involved in their own care. They can measure how the patient...
Most experts agree that patient data access is crucial for strong patient engagement.
Although most patient engagement strategies also incorporate principles of patient-centered care, patient education, and social determinants of health,...
Only around 43 percent of parents or guardians use the patient portal to manage their child’s health, representing a pretty serious lapse in patient engagement, according to a new survey from the...
Any good population health strategy needs good patient engagement, and as a part of that, good patient engagement technologies.
Defined by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, population health is an “interdisciplinary,...
It could be useful for providers treating patients with dementia to encourage their care partners to create their own patient portal proxy accounts, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine research note...
Close to 45,000 emergency department visits means a lot of phone calls for follow-up care and engagement. But that’s been the reality at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, where just two nurses are in charge of calling...
In the world of chronic disease management tools, not all technologies are created equal. According to a new Regenstrief Institute study, care management apps that offer patient data access and data...
Patient portal utilization is growing among older adults, according to Michigan Medicine data, but there’s still room to close the digital divide across sociodemographics.
Over the past five...
Healthcare organizations aren’t on the same page as patients when it comes to the digital transformation and patient experience. While patients want more technology enabling patient access to...
Can ChatGPT really replace doctors? Probably not, at least for right now, as surveying shows that patient trust in chatbots and generative AI in healthcare is relatively low.
The report from The...
More evidence is emerging that ChatGPT, a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, can effectively answer patient questions, this time out of Massachusetts General...
