Healthcare organizations might be seeing their Epic Systems patient portals looking a little different these days. After a two-year process, the EHR vendor giant has unveiled an updated patient portal...
Although patient engagement principles are rooted in timeless concepts like good interpersonal skills and patient motivation, the technologies used to push engagement are indeed at the cutting edge....
Most Americans use smartphones not only as a way to communicate with others, but to conveniently manage their day-to-day personal and professional lives in the palm of their hand. For healthcare, that...
Editor's Note: The ONC has since extended the deadline for providing patient access to clinical notes to April 5, 2021.
As part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the federal government will soon...
Young, White patients with commercial health payer coverage are more likely to use the patient portal for online appointment scheduling than others, according to the latest data in JAMA Network...
Secure direct messaging and patient portal communication has been a boon for patient-provider relationships, but have forced many clinicians to develop a web of workflow fail-safes to help them...
Healthcare is tipping toward more consumer-centered and participatory medicine, and that’s going to push many organizations to embrace on-demand, connected, and data-driven patient engagement...
Adopting popular patient engagement technologies could be the key to ramping up clinic operations and driving an organization closer toward patient-centered care, according to a new report from the...
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...
As efforts to address the opioid crisis and mental and behavioral health issues come to the forefront, as do questions of patient consent, privacy, and medical records access.
Specifically, impending...
Patient portal adoption has become nearly ubiquitous across the country, according to a recent Stat Poll from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
The survey of nearly 1,800 respondents...
As a fundamental patient engagement technology with numerous reimbursement payments tied to its adoption, providers have long searched for the secret sauce to facilitate high patient portal use....
As healthcare technology continues to permeate the medical industry, experts are continuing to evaluate how connected health tools can impact patient engagement and the overall patient experience.
As...
Patients only remember about 49 percent of the information their doctors give them without prompting, highlighting shortcomings with patient recall that can negatively impact patient activation, shows...
The American Academy of Nursing is calling on nurses to better support patient education and patient health literacy as a part of the organization’s annual policy brief.
“Health literacy...
As social media continues to permeate the healthcare space, providers are increasingly creating their own professional profiles to connect with patients and offer better patient education. It is...
Patient health data access is a top priority in the draft version of the Trust Exchange Framework released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT last week.
The Framework establishes...
Patients need better assurances of PHI and health data security before opting into a health information exchange or other patient data sharing model, according to a study published in the Journal of...
Public health professionals are using Twitter to spread patient education and informative messages, leveraging the platform to communicate with an otherwise hard-to-reach audience, according to data...
Patient health data access is a generally accepted patient engagement strategy that helps to empower patients through improved health literacy and integration into the care team.
Healthcare providers...
