Enthusiasm for patient engagement as a means to improve population health and lower costs should be tempered, according to a commentary in Health Affairs. The authors, leaders of Express Scripts, a ...

Medical experts discuss patient considerations when utilizing clinical pathways in HCC treatment. In this segment of the panel discussion, the focus shifts to the critical role of patients in the ...

Health system and hospital executives see the promise of automation and artificial intelligence to customize patient outreach ...

Some patients become advocates because everything went right: the diagnosis was made early, the surgery went well, the cancer-driving mutation was found and communicated to other family members, ...

One of the biggest exhibitors at the HIMSS23 Conference & Exhibition in April in Chicago will be longtime cloud-based IT vendor eClinicalWorks. The Westborough, Massachusetts-based company was founded ...

If I had to pinpoint one of the most adverse parts of the healthcare industry today, it would be the many practices and services that are created as one-size-fits-all offerings. When you standardize ...

Incorporating diversity into channels and platforms like Emmi, Wolters Kluwer Health's patient-facing personalized education tool leveraged by providers, payers and partners, is about empowering and ...

Hospitals and health systems that are on the leading edge of patient engagement activities often reap the rewards of satisfied patients, better referrals and improved transitions among care settings.

The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to create financial incentives for providers to improve patient outcomes while controlling costs of care. Unlike the traditional “fee for service” (FFS) model, ...

Traditional trial start-up workflows often follow a sequential path, from feasibility to contracting, then regulatory ...

The Pennsylvania health system has eliminated redundant processes and reduced the time and number of people involved in a discharge while boosting patient satisfaction scores. Patient discharge can be ...