Patient Engagement
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Are New Primary Care Sites an Opportunity for Nurses?
As nursing remains the most trusted profession and NPs have long been accepted as primary care providers, nurses and NPs are uniquely qualified to guide patients through care interactions and bring the consistency associated with primary care to new places.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Navigating the Journey from CMO and Physician to Patient
Even with my “VIP” access to the healthcare system as a physician who practiced in my community, I’m still struggling to coordinate my care as a cancer patient. I believe patients need more from their payers, providers, and digital health collaborators when it comes to care coordination and navigation.
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Convergence of medtech and health tech: Helping providers plan procedures and easing patient anxiety
A pediatric health system enlisting mixed reality and 3D printing technology illustrates how clinical collaboration and patient education can improve patient outcomes for complex procedures.
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Patient Engagement Is Key to the Success of Value-Based Care Programs
While greater operational efficiency and cost control are essential to the success of VBC initiatives, so too is patient engagement. Care coordination and care management are far more difficult – and far less likely to achieve optimal outcomes – without patients who are fully engaged with their providers.
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Don’t Be Caught Unprepared: How to Develop a Crisis Communications Plan
On any given day there may be more pressing issues to handle, and many companies believe “it won’t happen to us” – that is, until it does happen to you, and then it’s more important than ever to be prepared and confident with your crisis communications plan.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Dying in the Waiting Room: Emergency Departments Have Become the Nexus of the Newest Healthcare Crisis
The ED boarding crisis is not one that’s going to be solved overnight. But left to continue unchecked, it will only engender wider discontent, decrease patient satisfaction, and ultimately lead to worse outcomes.
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How Hospitals Are Reducing Gun Violence, Protecting Patients and Staff
Hospitals are places of healing, but they have also become sites of gun violence. A panel at the MedCity News INVEST conference discussed the ways hospitals can reduce threats and de-escalate situations before they become violent.
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Health IT, Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Data Management Challenges in Healthcare: CIOs Must Act Now
With the growing complexity of identity management and the challenges posed by market consolidation and digital front door initiatives, it is essential to implement a solution that will effectively manage patient information and prevent duplicates and identity issues.
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The Promise of Healthcare Pricing Transparency: As Costs Rise, More Custom Solutions May Help Meet Demand
It’s not enough to be hopeful that hospitals with the right tools—and incentives will put prices out there on a menu for all to see. Luckily, for employers and employees who want to access affordable healthcare, new and emerging solutions are empowering them with information and options.
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MedCity Influencers, Patient Engagement
The Post-discharge Process Is a Disservice to Patients and Providers
By combining some old-fashioned hand-holding (i.e., navigators) with some familiar technology (i.e. texting), we could save patients and their loved ones needless worry, money, and time. Equally importantly, we could reduce needless re-admissions.
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MedCity Influencers, Patient Engagement
The Importance of Patient Experience To Recession-proof Your Practice
By hearing critiques or praises directly from the source of your practice’s revenue, you can determine what is working and what needs improvement.
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MedCity Influencers, Physicians
Healthcare’s Empathy Imperative
Never has there been a time in healthcare when listening and understanding have been more critical. Issues of today are divisive, complex, and layered without easy solutions. We cannot possibly begin to fix without slowing down to listen through every channel available.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
The Key To Faster, More Efficient Clinical Trials? Patient Centricity
Added complexity to daily life is likely why patient dropout rates remain high, with 19% leaving studies before completion. Truly patient-centric trials will allow for broader participation, allowing patients to decide how and when they want to engage in a study.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
When It Comes to Dental Care, Convenience Isn’t a Luxury
For far too long, dentists have focused on drilling and billing rather than optimizing the patient experience — and that’s driving many of our patients away, with terrible results for their dental health.
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What’s on the agenda for ENGAGE at HLTH?
Hear from patients, leading provider and payer executives, investors, and healthcare startups about how to improve the patient experience at the event, which kicks off the first day of the HLTH conference. ENGAGE at HLTH is scheduled for November 13 at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas.
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How medtech can crack the patient engagement conundrum and transform the patient experience
A look at how tapping real world evidence from medical devices and patients could be a game changer, improving patient-clinician communication, supporting earlier interventions and helping patients manage their condition.
