At MedCity ENGAGE, HHS CTO Susannah Fox joined us for a one-on-one podcast interview about her new job, her thoughts on patient engagement and the experience of working for the federal government after years in the private sector.
New HHS CTO Susannah Fox is more strategist, entrepreneur and even cheerleader than someone managing hardware installation.
Solera Health is working to streamline employer contracting with health tech.
This week will see two firsts in health IT within the federal government, Dr. Jon White, deputy national coordinator in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said at MedCity ENGAGE.
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.
One of the enduring critiques of texting, instant messaging, e-mail and any other form of text-only online communication is that often is impossible to discern nuance and emotion. The same might be true in social media.
"I don't think people give a damn about their health unless they're sick, then they care a lot," said Neal Sofian, vice president of engagement and innovation at Vivacity, a Premera Blue Cross wellness subsidiary, at the MedCity ENGAGE conference.
Richard Fu details the company's approach to nutrition therapy and strategy for patients using GLP-1s.
72% percent of health IT leaders think consumer and patient considerations are the most important business issue affecting care delivery. At the MedCity ENGAGE conference payers, providers, policymakers and other healthcare leaders will come together to examine policies and best-in-class approaches to one of the biggest challenges in healthcare: patient engagement. Today is your last day to save $300 […]
Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in MedCity ENGAGE, an interdisciplinary event focused on innovations in patient engagement. As a physician, “interdisciplinary” usually just means having doctors from different specialties present. You can imagine my awe when I found myself at an event where I could interact with persons representing the vast areas of […]
With patient engagement becoming a central theme in the shifting consumer-driven world of healthcare delivery, providers, payers and patients alike are still in the midst of figuring what, exactly, that means. How much engagement is enough from the provider? What sort of technological tools can assist in the process? How might it curb healthcare costs and might […]
At ENGAGE on Wednesday, Dr. Sachin Jain started his talk with three patient stories. In each instance, the information doctors and other caregivers needed to figure out a patient’s problem existed – somewhere. It was either not in the EHR or not in the right file or existed only in a doctor’s head. Jain put […]
How Apella leverages technology to increase OR efficiency.
As I said at the close of the first day of ENGAGE, I heard this phrase much more often than I expected to: We have to meet people where they are. I am surprised at how fast this “how do we get employees to be healthy?” conversation has shifted, even since ENGAGE 2013. The focus […]
During the Reaching the Unreachables panel Tuesday at ENGAGE, Dr. Steve North described the challenges of working in a rural setting – specifically Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Spruce Pine is in western tip of the state squeezed between the Pisgah National Forest and the Cherokee National Forest in the Great Smoky Mountains. “I have an […]
Suzanne Mintz has been working to make life easier for caregivers for more than 20 years. In 1991, she and Cindy Fowler founded the Caregiver Action Network. Mintz and Fowler were both caregivers: Suzanne for her husband who has multiple sclerosis and Cindy for her mother with Parkinson’s. They launched the organization to family caregivers […]
The profile of patient advocates has been building steadily, but they’re also facing some interesting questions about their identity as they figure out how to maximize their effectiveness. In a Patients Town Hall to recap some of the highlights of the ENGAGE conference this week, panelists talked about what they need to make patients more […]
The desire by patients to take control of their data combined with the growth of personalized medicine raises an interesting question? What’s the best way for doctors to give patients genetic test results? Readmission is also a vexing issue, particularly for COPD. What kind of insights could patients offer doctors to change how they provide […]