Children of families that experienced greater hardships related to the COVID-19 pandemic had a poorer quality of life, according to a new National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study.
During the...
Legacy Community Health announced Houston Methodist, a leading health system in Texas, donated $50 million to expand access to healthcare services by building community health centers for...
Pediatric patients aren’t just “small adults.” Clinicians know that concept when making diagnostic decisions, and need to keep it top-of-mind when deploying pediatric patient...
More than half of adolescent patient portal accounts allow guardian proxy access, according to data published in JAMA Network Open, something the researchers said should be a consideration as...
Like most healthcare organizations, the Jackson, Mississippi-based Children’s Medical Group faced steep care gaps at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in a transformation from a purely...
Patients with limited to no English language proficiency face all the same care access barriers their English-speaking counterparts do, but they must also contend with the added layer of language...
Patient engagement is an essential part of healthcare, no matter the age of the patient. But when it comes to adolescent patients, engagement becomes a balancing act that demands providers weigh both...
For pediatric patients and their parent caregivers, fear in a hospital is a normal thing. Young patients can experience sensory overload, parent and child are often separated during procedures, and there is the looming fear of an adverse...
Patient portals are an important regulatory requirement, with industry professionals touting their ability to better engage the patient and help all participating parties manage patient health.
While pediatric and adult patients tend to...
