When Listening Could Save a Life: The Human Cost of Medical Gaslighting
Let’s be honest. Clinicians are taught to reduce unnecessary care. But there’s a razor-thin line between avoiding unnecessary tests and failing to believe a patient’s symptoms.
Prostate Cancer Management – We Need Better Options for Early-Stage Disease
We need to continue investing in research for early stage, localized prostate cancer, develop treatments that balance efficacy with quality-of-life considerations, ensure diverse representation in clinical trials, and listen to patients and incorporate their perspectives into treatment development and decision-making.
Solving Healthcare’s Provider Data Problem Starts with Interoperability
Break down the silos. Take control of your provider data.
What the Medicare Quality Rating Change Means for Healthcare Companies — and Patient Health
SMS is reevaluating its Star Ratings. Not only do health plans stand to benefit from the new calculations — all healthcare companies and millions of patients will reap the rewards.
Has Covid-19 made healthcare more patient-centric?
At MedCity News’ INVEST conference Monday, panelists in a session on patient-centric care talked about the impact of the pandemic. While Covid-19 has sparked some improvements, like greater access to virtual care, they said more change is needed.
Engage at HLTH: At the heart of patient-centered care is trust and knowledge
Panelists at HLTH's patient engagement track, hosted by MedCity News, zeroed in on three strategies for achieving patient centricity: building trust, engaging health navigators and providing easy-to-understand health information.
Opting in just makes sense: The benefits of sharing medical data for the greater good
We should encourage and inspire patients and families to make the decision to opt-in and share their data with trusted research organizations and foundations.
The Human Algorithm: What AI Can’t Replace in Pharma Engagement
At a time when AI is reshaping pharma, Reverba Global CEO Cheryl Lubbert explained in an interview why empathy, context, and ethics still require a human touch.
Better patient-reported experiences = more hospital profitability
The bottom line is that good patient experience can drive higher hospital profitability and those experiences correlate closely with better care.
Healthcare urgently needs a Copernican Revolution
We live in a pre-Copernican model where all of the planets float around the healthcare system, including the patient. What we need is the patient at the center. We need to put the sun where it belongs.
Direct-to-patient email and text communication is best for engaging patients in their care
Reaching your patients through the technology they already use is key to patient engagement, and email and text are the most effective way to reach patients of all ages.
IOM: Patients hold key to reducing diagnostic error
Two things were missing from previous attempts by the Institute of Medicine to shine light on the epidemic of medical harm in U.S. healthcare: diagnostic error and a patient-centered approach to fixing the many problems.
What Are Healthcare Organizations Getting Wrong about Email Security?
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
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.
5 key questions when caring for a relative with a health challenge
There is a significant effort underway in healthcare to ensure that patient and family goals guide the therapies and care that patients choose to receive.
This is what patient-centered care looks like these days…
With docs buried in EHRs, scanning tablet-ready genomics information and monitoring the various (interoperable!) devices – all the while tracking, say, their own Facebook feeds – how much actual attention does the individual patient get? Here’s a pretty astute take on patient-centered care from Sachin Jain, a lecturer on health policy at Harvard University, and […]
How to solve everyone’s HIPAA headaches: Make it opt out
Today’s #Path2Cures panel is a great reminder that patients need to be at the heart of all we do. — Nick Valeriani (@njvaleriani) June 24, 2014 Dr. Martin Harris, Chief Information Officer of Cleveland Clinic, has the best idea about how to cope with HIPAA that I’ve heard in a long time: Give patients the […]
The case for medication therapy management: A win-win-win solution
As the healthcare landscape continues to move toward team-based care, pharmacists are playing a significant role in improving patient outcomes. One of the most important ways pharmacists can take an active role is by providing Medication Therapy Management (MTM). Uncovering the benefits For patients, a Comprehensive Medication Review (CMR) conducted during an MTM consultation provides […]