Research from the pandemic is highlighting that more patients are becoming comfortable with and actually preferring digital communication with healthcare providers. SR Health by Solutionreach conducted a study that indicates 63% of patients feel comfortable participating in telehealth visits. The study helped validate that patients believe digital communications related to scheduling, follow-up
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17Sep
The Future Of Healthcare Is Customer-Centric… And Digital Is Leading The Way
This Forbes perspective highlights how digital capabilities are enabling healthcare brands to become more customer-centric. The article goes on to explain, “That doesn’t mean that humans are replaced, but that people and technology work together to create a cohesive and robust communication platform that reaches the needs of all customers.” Bioscape Digital has taken the time
16Mar
What is a Health Information Technician? A Sneak Peek at this Behind-the-Scenes Career
By Brianna Flavin for Rasmussen College Anyone with an interest in technology has probably encountered the field of health information technology (HIT) in the past few years. This sector of healthcare has received some well-deserved limelight for the innovations it has brought to the industry at large. But while we see the fantastic results of
11Feb
Patients Believe in Partnership to Improve Health
Patients overwhelmingly believe in partnership with their clinicians to improve health. A new survey shows people want to collaborate with their doctors and co-produce their clinical data. As announced on e-patients.net blog, and according to a survey released by the Society for Participatory Medicine and conducted by ORC International, patients/consumers express their thoughts about the value of sharing
14Jan
Patient-Centered Care, Costly for the Small
“For primary care practices, participating in a medical home demonstration requires substantial investments,” said Grand Martsolf, RAND policy researcher and the study’s lead author. “These costs of transformation include both one-time startup costs and ongoing, every-year costs. High-functioning IT systems are crucial to converting a physician practice to a patient-centered medical home model, but only
09Nov
Consumers want health apps to do more for their lives
A recent study designed by New York University and published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research exposed the consumer perspective of health app use in the U.S. More than 1,600 mobile phone users were surveyed, assessing sociodemographic characteristics, health app history and reasons for use and the status of their overall health. Consumers want access
15Oct
The Value behind the Patient’s Voice
One of the most important pieces of an electronic health record is often overlooked or ignored, leading to incorrect diagnoses, wasted resources and patient dissatisfaction. It’s the patient’s voice, that highly personal collection of feelings, fears and self-collected health data that goes beyond the clinical record. The patient’s voice – or the lack of it in
23Sep
Tech that Reduces Health Disparities
Concerned that food stamp users lacked the opportunity to buy fresh vegetables, the anti-hunger group Just Harvest decided two years ago to take credit card machines to local farmers markets that were operating on a cash basis. Besides credit and debit cards, the machines accept the state-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer cards holding food stamps. “As
02Jul
How have EHRs impacted our visit to hospitals and clinics?
Have you ever come across the term “EHR” in hospitals and clinics and how does that affect you? EHR (Electronic health record) is an electronic version of patient’s medical history. They are real-time, patient-centered medical records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users. Our world has been radically transformed by digital technology
28May
EHRs Improve Support for Analytics, Research Shows
Many health care organizations are using electronic health record systems to support their data analytics capabilities, according to a survey by HIMSS Analytics, Health Data Management reports. For the survey, researchers reviewed the HIMSS Analytics data warehouse and polled 189 health care organization officials, the majority of whom were director or c-suite level executives. Results were compared with a similar
