• Patient advocates explore a patient bill of rights for AI

    April 16, 2024 - The Light Collective, a patient advocacy organization focused on promoting the patient voice in the health IT space, wants to make sure the industry centers the patient in its frenzy for adopting AI standards. In response to the insurgence of AI, healthcare and technology leaders have formed multiple initiatives to write out AI codes of conduct....

  • Top tips for successful patient portal secure messaging

    April 15, 2024 - If you’re a clinician with your inbox open for patient portal secure messaging, you need to make sure you have a good inbox management strategy in place. Coming up against strong patient demand for secure direct messaging and unabating levels of administrative burden and provider burnout, healthcare practitioners need to consider the...

  • Doc bills for patient portal messages are a rare occurrence

    April 11, 2024 - Patient portal messages represent just a drop in the bucket of overall evaluation and management (E&M) services, according to new Michigan Medicine data, findings that may help temper industry anxieties about the increased workload these messages can cause. Indeed, during the height of the pandemic, patient portal messages represented just...

  • 14% of women say Dobbs decision stalled access to abortion

    April 9, 2024 - The 2021 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has had far-ranging effects, with new KFF polling showing that one in seven women of reproductive age (18-49) know someone who’s had a hard time accessing an abortion after the decision came out. In states that enacted abortion bans following the Dobbs decision, that figure was one...


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Patient advocates explore a patient bill of rights for AI

The Light Collective, a patient advocacy organization focused on promoting the patient voice in the health IT space, wants to make sure the industry centers the patient in its frenzy for adopting AI...

Top tips for successful patient portal secure messaging

If you’re a clinician with your inbox open for patient portal secure messaging, you need to make sure you have a good inbox management strategy in place. Coming up against strong patient demand...

Kaiser Permanente zeroes in on food is medicine philosophy

Kaiser Permanente is continuing its charge pioneering healthcare’s food is medicine philosophy by launching its own Food Is Medicine Center of Excellence, the health system recently...

Doc bills for patient portal messages are a rare occurrence

Patient portal messages represent just a drop in the bucket of overall evaluation and management (E&M) services, according to new Michigan Medicine data, findings that may help temper industry...

14% of women say Dobbs decision stalled access to abortion

The 2021 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has had far-ranging effects, with new KFF polling showing that one in seven women of reproductive age (18-49) know someone who’s had a...

Disrespectful healthcare experience affects 33% of LGBT patients

A third of LGBT adult patients said they’ve had disrespectful healthcare experiences, a rate that’s double that for adults who do not identify as LGBT and should be a cause for concern for...

Do patients perceive healthcare’s gains in patient safety?

Patient safety has objectively improved since the pandemic, but do patients think so? Not so much, according to a new report from Press Ganey that found outpatients are far more likely to perceive...

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