Patient Engagement
The generative AI technology will supply patients with answers to healthcare-related questions and scheduling services and offer employees HR-related information.
A nurse professor at the Western University Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing explains how providers and researchers can use de-identified health data to gain ground on social determinants of health and enable better outcomes.
For people with commercial insurance, the value of benefits for women is more than $1.3 billion less than men.
The overall provider shortage, combined with other unique factors, means rural residents have the odds stacked against them when it comes to seeking mental and behavioral healthcare. But one expert says telehealth can make a big difference.
The goal of the new nationwide ecosystem is to simplify patient access through virtual care pathways that work in tandem with local delivery, enabling higher quality and cost efficiencies for providers, says Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman.
The outreach program is showing serious clinical ROI by relying on patient-reported blood pressure data linked to the Epic MyChart-based interactive digital health assistant, Care Companion.
Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region.
This HIMSS23 APAC session put a spotlight on the hospital's recent digital transformation journey.
If they want to apply these models, it has to be hosted locally to preserve data integrity, said Dr Roel Bolt, CMIO of Franciscus Hospital.
Joint governance, audit monitoring and effective communication can help win patient trust, even in a fraught cybersecurity landscape where health systems are targeted for their patient data, says a Kaiser Permanente informatics leader.
