While enrollment in consumer direction programs has grown, more must be done to educate, amplify, and spread awareness to ensure that all eligible individuals learn about the benefits of this alternative to traditionally delivered agency and institutional care.
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.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Jacobs regularly tweeted and blogged about her many hospital stays, including her poor experiences. She was famously outspoken and humorous about her health and her medical care.
Some of the concerns are legitimate, while others sound like people don't understand the intent of the law.
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.
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.
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Everyone's talking patient empowerment, patient safety and patient engagement, but often, patients themselves are an afterthought.
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.
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.
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.
Duncan Cross, a longtime engaged patient with Crohn's disease, unloaded on a "doctor who pissed me off."