Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digitally enabled healthcare means building digital technologies into the fabric of our ecosystem to improve outcomes and enhance efficiency in day-to-day health and wellness.”

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 17, 2024

SPM delivered three CLEs, one in Portland OR with Oregon Health and Science University and two in Boston MA, one in collaboration with the Patient Experience Symposium and the other in partnership with Northeastern University. The post 2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings appeared first on SPM Blog.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept. The key points are that: Hospital-at-home services (H-a-H) combine home visits with virtual care and remote monitoring.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 17, 2023

Telehealth has revolutionized the patient experience by making it easier to attend appointments, communicate with their provider, and reduce no-show rates. On top of enabling continuity of care for patients, telehealth also increases clinician satisfaction and provides financial benefits for organizations.

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CiscoHealth

APRIL 29, 2020

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . Even before this year, patients were demanding better experiences from their healthcare providers. Choose wisely!

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2021

We’re trying something a little different this year…a throwback to the early days of blogging. Today John Lynn and I will be posting interesting news, conversations, thoughts and insights from Day 2 here at #HIMSS21 in Las Vegas. Bookmark this article and watch for updates from me throughout the day.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2024

Paul Donovan, said economist, discusses The economics of getting thin in his regularly published comment blog. Since the introduction of GLP-1 drugs on the market, their use has split into two categories: for obesity and “recreationally,” according to the Chief Economist with UBS (formerly known as Union Bank of Switzerland).

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NiftyHMS

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Struggling with patient communication across multiple clinics? Streamline communication processes, enhance patient experience, and improve efficiency. Experience the benefits today! Consider leveraging WhatsApp chatbot solutions for real-time connection and personalized care.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I have attended hundreds of conferences: patient experience, patient education, health tech, health literacy, shared decision making — and the best part has always been meeting other advocates, patients, and family caregivers. Did you enjoy this blog? The cost is simply too high.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

That’s TMI for me to write about in the Health Populi blog, but this story has a current-events twist: the pharmacist could not electronically link with my insurance company to transact my payment. On February 22, 2024, I went to a CVS Pharmacy-Inside-Target in my community to fill a prescription for benzonatate 200 mg capsules.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As Mark Bard, who leads the DHC Group, succinctly put the clinicians’ need: “Help me, help my patients.” ” And he rightly said that sentiment goes double if the physician works in oncology dealing with high-cost specialty drugs (for more on this see this Health Populi blog post on the subject ).

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2020

” Our panel includes Adrienne Boissy, MD, Chief of Patient Experience at The Cleveland Clinic; Grace Cordovano, PhD, Enlightening Results; Joseph DeVivo, CEO of InTouch Health (recently acquired by Teladoc); and Abner Mason, CEO and Founder of ConsejoSano. With the great lockdown, the U.S.

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Xealth

MAY 2, 2023

In this month’s blog, we highlight a couple new features, showcase two use cases from clients, and share an update on our partner community. This enhances the patient experience, saves time during patient visits, improves reporting and strengthens clinical decision support. Client Stories and Outcomes 1.

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Xealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

In a previous blog post, I explained the side door concept as the tendency of patients to seek lower-value services outside their primary care network. User Feedback and Adaptation Regularly gather patient feedback to understand patient needs and preferences. That door, as we all know, serves as an entry and an exit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2023

” Steve Demetrious, UC architect at Centerstone, noted that his team has used the scalability of Zoom Rooms , as well as smart gallery view and ceiling microphones, to rethink and redesign therapy spaces for the most equitable patient experience.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

” Steve Demetrious, UC architect at Centerstone, noted that his team has used the scalability of Zoom Rooms , as well as smart gallery view and ceiling microphones, to rethink and redesign therapy spaces for the most equitable patient experience.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

When I say “Oscar” here on the Health Populi blog, you’re conjuring up an image of the health plan insurance innovator founded in 2012. And this year’s Oscar winner for leading actor, Anthony Hopkins, played The Father, who with his family is dealing with dementia.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Here is a snippet of how I explained the Accenture research here in Health Populi when it was published: “Making healthcare more human begins with a step in the patient’s shoes,” Rich Birhanzel wrote in Accenture’s Humanizing Healthcare blog in July 2021.

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E-CareManagement

JULY 28, 2016

Writing in Vox, Sarah Kliff describes VC-backed health plan Oscar’s latest twist on strategy: Oscar’s hope is that it can take narrow networks to the next level; rather than simply cutting costs, Oscar wants to use a narrow network to improve patient experience by deeply integrating with the hospitals and doctors it works with.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I covered this announcement in the Health Populi blog at the time, and today want to double-down on the significance of Ford’s leading presence at #CES2022. . “This marks the first time in CES history that a healthcare company will take the mainstage for a keynote at the show,” CTA’s press release stated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2023

"TytoCare’s Home Smart Clinic was introduced to solve the home healthcare delivery gap that patients experience with traditional audio/video-only telehealth solutions," the company said.

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Health Populi

APRIL 30, 2018

I explain th e current state of cybersecurity and health data insecurity in a new HIMSS blog linked here. For hospitals to maintain this high degree of goodwill, they must do better as savvy and switched-on health data stewards on behalf of their patients. You can read the full HIMSS blog here.

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Xealth

JANUARY 3, 2024

Recent research published in Nature outlines Providence’s study into patient-reported physical, mental, and social impacts that helped classify long COVID experiences. Providence’s MCD study addresses these by incorporating patient generated responses collected over time for a longitudinal view.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S. health citizens: that is, consumers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians (especially nurses, pharmacists, and physicians).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2020

The following is a guest blog post by Tom Downes, CEO of Quail Digital. In a discussion paper, Nuffield Trust has highlighted the medium- to long-term implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on NHS services. Entitled ‘Here to Stay? How the NHS will have to learn to live with coronavirus’ raises a myriad of challenges on our health […].

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 14, 2023

Achieving positive health outcomes is challenging due to various factors, including resource availability, service coordination , evidence-based practices, patient engagement, and organizational culture. Effective healthcare strategies play a vital role in driving better health outcomes for patients and populations.

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E-CareManagement

JUNE 27, 2021

The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. The patient’s role is critical in coordinating their own care, testing, results reporting and care management. . Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, Advisor, Trend Weaver, THINK-Health & Founder, Health Populi blog.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Stay tuned to the Health Populi blog, my tweets @HealthyThinker, and my LinkedIn page @Jane Sarasohn-Kahn for more on the Home-Health-Hub and consumer technology innovations we’ll see at the big Las Vegas Convention Center. I’ll be covering #CES23, the Consumer Electronics Show , in early January wearing this lens.

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Iris Telehealth

APRIL 29, 2024

For their behavioral health services in particular, many health systems rely on telehealth to help them reach patients. In this blog, we will walk through how hospitals are addressing behavioral health platform integration, important considerations, and the difference a technology-neutral partner can make to daily operations.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As co-founder Dr. Danny Sands often says in his speeches, “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see?” ” Not surprisingly, this site has often blogged about OpenNotes , starting with the initial research study from 2010-2012 that proved the world doesn’t end when patients see their notes.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 16, 2021

By sharing my story, I’ve educated healthcare professionals by speaking about the patient experience at their conferences. I’ve served as a patient representative on committees that have shaped guidelines to reduce cancer deaths. I’ve helped change legislation by testifying at state houses and at the U.S.

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Patient Experience 125

Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

Three reports published in the past few weeks give us some useful perspective on that question, woven together in today’s Health Populi blog. This is a proxy for positive patient experience at that “moment-of-truth,” in the space between doctor-and-patient where shared decision-making can happen… or not.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

By facilitating a thorough understanding of the telehealth platform and tools, nurses can minimize room for errors during actual patient interactions and create the best possible patient experience. Ensure that nurses can educate patients, too. The implementation might feel like a big hurdle, but it doesn’t have to be.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The bases of competition in healthcare are shifting to competing on quality, cost, and patient experience. The patient’s role is critical in coordinating their own care, testing, results reporting and care management. . Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist, Advisor, Trend Weaver, THINK-Health & Founder, Health Populi blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by The Fax Guys. Inspired by ethical tradition, HIPAA guidelines mandate that patient information be stored and communicated securely. Confidentiality Is A Cornerstone of the Healthcare Industry. That critical requirement has far-reaching technology implications.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 23, 2022

I was recently on a podcast sharing an example of a negative experience I had with my doctor and it made me think about trust between patients and their doctors, and how vital communication is. Ella Balasa is a patient advocate, consultant, and person living with cystic fibrosis. Learn more at www.ellabalasa.com.

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