What do patients want out of a healthcare law?
A recent poll from PatientsLikeMe asked 2,755 patients with chronic or progressive degenerative conditions about their thoughts on healthcare in America.
A recent poll from PatientsLikeMe asked 2,755 patients with chronic or progressive degenerative conditions about their thoughts on healthcare in America.
Interoperability Across Organizational Boundaries Improves Patient Care and Quality
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
A new NEJM Catalyst survey outlines what healthcare experts predict will happen to patients, premium prices, the ACA and more under the Trump administration.
According to patients, the application of a social feed in the University of Colorado Hospital emergency department helped improve overall communication.
A new study from JAMA Surgery analyzes how effective telehealth care can be for patients recovering from breast reconstruction surgery.
With research showing that consumers have a high level of trust in information they get from people like them online, the search is on for people to share their health stories.
There are some simple things that can be done before, during and after an office visit that don't require fancy technology and which can greatly improve outcomes and patient-physician engagement.
The next step beyond inpatient health monitoring allows to track patient’s health status in the comfort of their home. Find more.
Everyone's talking patient empowerment, patient safety and patient engagement, but often, patients themselves are an afterthought.
Some heart surgeries have become so common — the angioplasty, for example, to open clogged arteries — you might think the charge for it wouldn’t vary much from hospital to hospital. You might assume the same about hip or knee replacements, which now hold the top spot in this country as the reason for overnight […]
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
Thanks in part to digital technology, patients are taking control of their healthcare in a way they never have before, said WebMD CEO David Schlanger. Yet, almost half of Americans have at least one chronic disease, and that number is expected to continue growing. At the Cleveland Clinic’s Patient Experience: Empathy + Innovation Summit today, […]
PSFK Presents The Future of Health from Piers Fawkes on Vimeo. Game therapy. Do-it-yourself diagnosis. Embedded vital sign monitors. PSFK Labs and Boehringer Ingelheim identified these as three of 13 healthcare technology trends that will shape the future of patient care in a new Future of Health Report. The research firm tapped more than a […]
As the ocean of healthcare data gets bigger and bigger, the difference between accessing data and understanding data is becoming increasingly clear. As many as 35 percent of U.S. adults lack intermediate health literacy – for example, the ability to read instructions on a prescription label and determine what time to take it. How can […]
About half of U.S. adults take prescription drugs, but according to a new Accenture survey, those drugs are only part of what consumers today expect pharmaceutical companies to provide. Three-fourths of prescription-taking consumers say pharma companies should offer services that complement the products they sell, either directly or through a healthcare provider. The services consumers […]
Among the first set of graduates from a new San Jose incubator is a tech company using the power of the crowd to help people pay their medical bills. HealthDonor is similar to Kickstarter or Indiegogo in that users create profiles, set fundraising goals and upload videos and photos that tell their story. Unlike those […]