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The Path to Patient Empowerment: Hospitals are granting patients access to their health information, but is that enough?

Healthcare IT Today

The 21 st Century Cures Act codifies immediate access to health information for patients. The Act paves the way for patients to become more pro-active partners in their care. There is little value for patients to access health information they cannot understand. Access alone, however, is not sufficient.

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The Intersection of Digital Patient Engagement and Care Outcomes

Xealth

The shift empowers patients and care providers with innovative tools, paving the way for potentially enhanced health outcomes through more personalized and accessible care. There’s growing interest in understanding how digital tools can support patient care more effectively in various healthcare specialties.

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Digital Side Door Part 2: Attract and Retain Patients with These Tips

Xealth

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. Utilize Patient Portals Patient portals serve as a gateway for patients to access their health information conveniently.

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See Your Patients Virtually with Telehealth

iSALUS Healthcare

Virtual healthcare is changing the delivery of modern medicine in the digital age, helping patients to become more engaged and diminishing primary care deserts. While this includes the virtual visit, it also includes other services such as remote patient monitoring, consumer medical health information gathering and patient education.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. Interested in cutting costs and providing faster care in your facility? Get a GlobalMed demo today.

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Solving the Disconnections in Connected Care

GlobalMed

But it doesn’t work with the system used by the patient’s primary care provider, even though the provider is in-network. So each office’s staff wind up manually exchanging information and waiting for a response, then following up with the patient – with results lost along the way. Request a Demo.

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Solving Provider Burnout with Virtual Healthcare

GlobalMed

Finally, providers can increase their patient volume by offering remote services to smaller communities that lack specialty and even primary care. Discover how you reduce burnout by standing up your own telehealth program with GlobalMed's full platform of virtual health solutions. Request a Demo.