How Advocate Health Uses Patient Communication IT to Close Care Gaps
- Advocate Health wants to be the safety net for patients managing care gaps, using patient engagement technology to streamline the scheduling process. After all, healthcare isn’t easy to navigate, especially for patients who have seen gaps in preventive services and other screenings open up. Closing care gaps is important for both value-based care and patient outcomes, but...
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