Image Credit: freepik
Digital health is not just an experiment anymore. Virtual care platforms, remote monitoring tools, eConsultations and patient portals are now embedded across healthcare systems. As adoption increases, so does the responsibility to…
Continue Reading
Jared Mauskopf, CEO of Medical Web Experts
John Deutsch, CEO of Bridge
Patient portals, once heralded as the pathway to empowered connection, have instead become transactional cul-de-sacs. They offer the illusion of convenience for tasks like…
Continue Reading
Misty Chalk, VP of Sales, Americas at BrightSign
Healthcare organizations spend incredible amounts of time and energy on improving patient and provider experiences. But the industry is currently under stress as it navigates financial headwinds…
Continue Reading
The Critical Access Challenge in Modern Healthcare
Healthcare organizations face an unprecedented access crisis that digital transformation alone cannot solve. Despite significant investments in patient portals, mobile apps, and online scheduling platforms, healthcare call centers…
JAMA Network Open recently published an Original Investigation titled “Patient Care Technology Disruptions Associated With the CrowdStrike Outage.” The UCSD authors found disruptions at 759 of 2,200 hospitals during the July 19, 2024 outage,…
Continue Reading
Data Credit: HINTS
What You Should Know:
– A new brief utilizing the latest 2024 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data reveals significant progress in patient and caregiver access to online medical records and patient…
Continue Reading
Patient portals are widely available to facilitate self-service interactions, including appointment booking, offering convenience to users. Promoting clinically appropriate care pathways, however, is complex; portals must recognize patient intent while striving for an intuitive…
Continue Reading
What You Should Know:
– A new brief utilizing the latest 2024 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data reveals significant progress in patient and caregiver access to online medical records and patient portals.
– Following…
Continue Reading
Episource, which develops analytics tools for healthcare providers, said it has begun informing patient victims of a health data breach as a result of a ransomware attack in February. Customer Sharp Healthcare and Sharp Community…
Continue Reading
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a patient engagement portal contract worth £572,000 to DrDoctor.
The deployment of the DrDoctor platform, which is currently in the early delivery stage with no go-live…
