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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

Then 2020 was the Twitter take-off,” she explained, launching her Twitter handle @Stacy_Hurt. Stacy brings the personal together with the professional, culminating in her next chapter as the first Patient Ambassador on behalf of Parexel. “I So what’s the future of “Patient Ambassadors,” I asked one of the first in the marketplace.

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WellSpan Health expands AI-powered clinical documentation applications at scale

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In 2020, WellSpan first piloted Nuance's automated clinical documentation tools to reduce administrative workloads that lead to physician burnout, according to the company. Then, three years ago, the health system expanded Nuance Dax to primary care and a number of specialties.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

Health Populi

There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

2020 changed everything, the W2O team asserts, now issuing its latest look into the issue through the Relevance Quotient. The year 2020 pushed several issues into headlines and peoples’ online searches and social network shares. These ten are all life science/pharma companies. The top ten were: AstraZeneca.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

We must be mindful that hospitals, health systems and physicians quickly stood up and adopted virtual care, especially telemedicine programs, in March and April 2020. Power called telehealth, “the best consumer healthcare experience you’ve never tried.” In 2019, J.D.

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Pharma’s Future Relevance Depends on Empathy, Messaging, Partnering, and Supporting Patients and Providers

Health Populi

in May and June 2020. Top-line, Accenture points to four pillars on which the pharma industry can “reinvent its relevance,” as the report title suggests: To express greater empathy, understanding the patient experience of delaying treatment, financial impacts, and mental health challenges the pandemic has caused.

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Revolutionizing Fertility Care: Femtech CEO Weighs in on the Power of Remote Monitoring and Advancing Technologies

Healthcare IT Today

billion in 2020 to $4.7 The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the inefficiencies of this approach, prompting a reevaluation of how technology could bridge the gap between doctors and patients remotely. Innovative technologies, particularly AI , have emerged as key enablers of better patient experiences. billion in 2021.