In-Depth: A brief history of digital patient engagement tools
Without a doubt patient engagement is one of the more important trends in healthcare and health IT right now. Over the past few years the tools that look to enable patient engagement between providers...
View ArticlePA health system re-imagines the patient portal
Web-based patient portals, in one form or another, have started to become commonplace in American doctor's offices and hospitals. Partly this is due to requirements in Meaningful Use Stage II that...
View ArticleACOs will push hospitals beyond the EHR
Left to Right: Halamka, Dreyer, Landman, Stack, and Weygandt. As regulatory efforts like ICD-10 and Meaningful Use continue to march on, the vision of policy and the reality of physician experience...
View ArticleWhy hospitals are investing in telemedicine technology
Forty-six percent of healthcare providers answering a HIMSS survey used multiple telemedicine technologies in their practice, with the most popular technology by far being two-way video messaging.HIMSS...
View ArticleSurvey: Patients want different digital tools from their MDs than they're...
Patients are increasingly looking at what digital services physicians provide when choosing a doctor, and they're finding themselves disappointed in what they see, according to a new survey from...
View ArticleAnalyst: Widespread provider adoption of patient engagement tools still two...
A new report from Chilmark Research shows that the state of affairs in patient engagement is best summed up by the overused paraphrase of the William Gibson quote: The future is here, it's just not...
View ArticleStudies still lacking on patient portal usage, efficacy
Geisinger Health System's patient portal. Research conducted on patient portals in the last three years shows they provide some measurable benefits, but studies are spotty and don't include a single...
View ArticleIn Meaningful Use Stage 3, an API could replace the patient portal for some...
Last week, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced the long-awaited proposed guidelines for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health records. On the same day,...
View ArticleProjection: Even without Meaningful Use, 75 percent of adults will use PHRs...
A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins, the Ohio State University, and the National Cancer Institute argue that, based on projections from NCI survey data, 75 percent of US adults will use personal...
View ArticleHHS nominee Price weighs in on telemedicine, innovation, and regulation in...
On Tuesday, Representative Tom Price, President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced his second confirmation hearing, this time before the Senate Finance Committee (previously...
View ArticleCMS overhauls meaningful use EHR program, removes redundancies
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to their...
View ArticlePA health system re-imagines the patient portal
Web-based patient portals, in one form or another, have started to become commonplace in American doctor's offices and hospitals. Partly this is due to requirements in Meaningful Use Stage II that...
View ArticleACOs will push hospitals beyond the EHR
Left to Right: Halamka, Dreyer, Landman, Stack, and Weygandt. As regulatory efforts like ICD-10 and Meaningful Use continue to march on, the vision of policy and the reality of physician experience...
View ArticleWhy hospitals are investing in telemedicine technology
Forty-six percent of healthcare providers answering a HIMSS survey used multiple telemedicine technologies in their practice, with the most popular technology by far being two-way video messaging.HIMSS...
View ArticleSurvey: Patients want different digital tools from their MDs than they're...
Patients are increasingly looking at what digital services physicians provide when choosing a doctor, and they're finding themselves disappointed in what they see, according to a new survey from...
View ArticleAnalyst: Widespread provider adoption of patient engagement tools still two...
A new report from Chilmark Research shows that the state of affairs in patient engagement is best summed up by the overused paraphrase of the William Gibson quote: The future is here, it's just not...
View ArticleStudies still lacking on patient portal usage, efficacy
Geisinger Health System's patient portal. Research conducted on patient portals in the last three years shows they provide some measurable benefits, but studies are spotty and don't include a single...
View ArticleIn Meaningful Use Stage 3, an API could replace the patient portal for some...
Last week, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced the long-awaited proposed guidelines for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health records. On the same day,...
View ArticleProjection: Even without Meaningful Use, 75 percent of adults will use PHRs...
A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins, the Ohio State University, and the National Cancer Institute argue that, based on projections from NCI survey data, 75 percent of US adults will use personal...
View ArticleHHS nominee Price weighs in on telemedicine, innovation, and regulation in...
On Tuesday, Representative Tom Price, President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, faced his second confirmation hearing, this time before the Senate Finance Committee (previously...
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