patient empowerment
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Empowering Patient Healthcare Decision-Making: How Resource Sheets Support Patient Understanding of Clinical Trial Data
Providing patients with comprehensive patient resource sheets on clinical trials can alleviate worry, support dialog with family members and clinical care providers and empower informed decision-making.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
How healthcare organizations can listen and adapt in the era of “patient empowerment”
Patient expectations are drastically changing due to the pandemic, access to technology and generational preferences. By actively listening to patients and drawing on data healthcare organizations already have, it’s possible to personalize experiences and improve care delivery.
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Do you advise self-insured employers? You Can Help Us!
Take part in this survey and share some of the trends you are seeing among your clients across healthcare, including chronic conditions, behavioral health and navigation.
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Patients, providers and a bus full of backseat drivers
Driving change in the health sector is challenging precisely because no one can seem to agree upon who’s driving who, or when, or where. In theory, the ecosystem’s set up to benefit the patient first.
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INVEST Video Conference: Interoperability Finally? How the Final CMS Regulations Empower Patients
Starting in April, long-awaited interoperability regulations go into effect where patients will have unprecedented access to their data. Learn from patient advocates, health systems and others how the changes affect them.
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At CES, leaders from J&J, Nokia and Teladoc say they want to empower consumers
On day one of the Digital Health Summit at CES, leaders from three notable companies zeroed in on empowering patients. The panel discussion took place on the same day as an isolated power outage at CES, which truly inconvenienced attendees rather than empowered them.
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Study: Digital health empowers diabetes patients
A three-month experiment in Canada with bimonthly text messages, a Web portal and home-based medical devices produced an average weight decrease of 3.5 pounds and a mean reduction in hemoglobin A1c levels from 7.41 to 6.77 percent in Type 2 diabetics.
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CHIME: Ask for a diagnosis, not just a medical test
Medical technology is great, but overused. Information technology, especially data, is underused, in the opinion of Dr. Leana Wen, health commissioner for the City of Baltimore, said at CHIME15.
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Trayt Health Seeks to Increase Access to Diagnoses and Treatments
CEO Malekeh Amini explains how Trayt Health can bridge the gap for patients seeking neurological care.
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If you want to talk patient safety, perhaps think of patients first
Everyone’s talking patient empowerment, patient safety and patient engagement, but often, patients themselves are an afterthought.
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ENGAGE: Ex-ONC consumer guru Ricciardi talks patient engagement (video)
Lygeia Ricciardi stepped down as director of the ONC Office of Consumer eHealth a year ago, but continues to carry the torch for patient engagement and empowerment in the private sector, as she explains in this video.
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Get My Health Data campaign launches in time for ‘Data Independence Day’
July 4 is upon us, and with that also comes “Data Independence Day,” when consumers are supposed to start asking en masse for copies of their medical records, in hopes of demonstrating to providers, IT vendors and healthcare policy-makers that there truly is wide demand for such access.
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‘Internet of Me,” outcomes headline Accenture health IT trends (infographic)
Accenture has come out with its annual list of trends in health IT, and it’s safe to say the research and consulting firm is looking far beyond Meaningful Use.
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Outraged, engaged patient takes aim at paternalistic physician
Duncan Cross, a longtime engaged patient with Crohn’s disease, unloaded on a “doctor who pissed me off.”