Beyond Adoption: The Habits Shaping Digital Health
The products that succeed over time are usually the ones that make life easier, fit naturally into existing routines and continue delivering value long after the novelty wears off.
The products that succeed over time are usually the ones that make life easier, fit naturally into existing routines and continue delivering value long after the novelty wears off.
The future of value-based care will hinge on empowering providers, and specialists in particular, with the data and strategic partnerships to proactively manage patient health beyond traditional clinical settings.
For many of Medicaid’s highest-need members, the problem isn’t that services don’t exist. It’s that the system can’t consistently reach the people who need those services most.
Penn Medicine is integrating K Health’s AI-powered patient intake agents into its virtual primary care service. The health system says the goal is to free up time for patient care rather than information-gathering.
When education is incomplete, patients don’t just feel uninformed; they feel dismissed.
The healthcare organizations getting this right are not defined by how much they’ve automated. They are defined by how deliberately they’ve protected the human touchpoints that drive trust, engagement, and outcomes.
Portable gluten detection tools are not a substitute for standard care. Used carefully, they may help clinicians support patients when hidden gluten exposure remains a problem.
The first truly scalable and transformative use of AI in medical imaging may not be autonomous diagnosis. Instead, it may be the creation of a "translation layer" designed to help patients actually understand the complex information they are already receiving.
The assumption is intuitive and well-intentioned: if patients simply understood the system better, they would use it more effectively. However, for most Medicare patients, that assumption is wrong. The barrier to care isn't knowledge, it's execution.
A newly diagnosed person experiences healthcare as a complicated maze of physicians, specialists, pharmacies, insurers, deductibles, formularies, prior authorizations, benefit explanations and coverage rules that rarely speak to one another and often contradict each other. Better AI can help.
As decentralized trials reduce face time with participants, sponsor organizations that treat engagement as an afterthought will pay for it in dropout rates, missing data and failed endpoints.
Hospitals who prioritize patient understanding achieve better operational outcomes. Higher surgical conversion rates, increased patient retention, and repeat engagement produce measurable performance gains.
Healthcare often expects consumers to contort themselves around processes that were never built with them in mind — and that’s where the trust issue begins. With the looming arrival of HR1, how to fix it.
Colon cancer has long been considered a disease that comes with old age. However, the trend line of disease has been moving in the wrong direction for years, in a population we long assumed wasn’t at risk. And while researchers continue to investigate the why, there's a parallel conversation we aren't having nearly enough. One that has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with operations.
Direct-to-patient (DTP) models create a continuous loop of value, connecting seamless patient and provider experience with the strategic power of branding and data.