• Patient satisfaction suffers under poor hospital admission & discharge

    March 27, 2024 - Healthcare organizations working on improving the hospital patient experience need to focus on the admission and discharge process, with new J.D. Power survey data showing that patients are frustrated by a lack of information and long wait times. The data, based on surveying of just under 3,000 adult patients experiencing an overnight hospital stay...

  • Retail health clinic utilization climbed by 202% by 2022

    March 26, 2024 - Retail health clinic utilization soared a whopping 202 percent nationally from 2021 to 2022, signaling the continued care access shift into alternative care sites, according to the FAIR Health Healthcare Indicators and Medical Price Index reports. The report, which measured healthcare utilization in a number of alternative outpatient settings, also...

  • Digital maternal health tools hold promise, but equity question remains

    March 26, 2024 - Digital maternal health tools could be a key piece of the nation’s overall maternal health improvement plan, but the industry is currently staring down serious usability and cultural competence pitfalls that could stymie their effectiveness, according to the latest from Deloitte. The report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions...

  • Health equity investment slated to continue into 2024

    March 22, 2024 - Health equity efforts will almost certainly maintain their pace over the next year, as healthcare leaders assert that equitable care and closing of heath disparities is a social, ethical, and political priority, according to Ernst and Young’s Health Equity Outlook Report. The report, out in its second iteration from EY’s Center for...


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Chronic care access limits diagnosis & quality for women

It could take more than a year longer for women to get a diagnosis for a chronic disease than it could for their male counterparts, with new survey data showing stark disparities in how women rate...

Patient satisfaction suffers under poor hospital admission & discharge

Healthcare organizations working on improving the hospital patient experience need to focus on the admission and discharge process, with new J.D. Power survey data showing that patients are frustrated...

Retail health clinic utilization climbed by 202% by 2022

Retail health clinic utilization soared a whopping 202 percent nationally from 2021 to 2022, signaling the continued care access shift into alternative care sites, according to the FAIR Health...

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Digital maternal health tools could be a key piece of the nation’s overall maternal health improvement plan, but the industry is currently staring down serious usability and cultural competence...

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Health equity efforts will almost certainly maintain their pace over the next year, as healthcare leaders assert that equitable care and closing of heath disparities is a social, ethical, and political...

Patient portal message responses vary by race, ethnicity

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Better change management key to patient self-scheduling buy-in

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