Patient Engagement

Stethoscope on iPad
By Bill Siwicki 11:29 am August 25, 2023
Incorporating cloud-native architecture, agile methodologies, product-driven development and DevOps all are needed, says Dr. Melek Somai, CTO at Inception Health, a subsidiary of Froedtert Health.
A nurse checking a patient's record on a digital tablet
By Adam Ang 04:48 am August 25, 2023
Also, The Clinician's ZEDOC platform is being tried out to facilitate digital tinnitus care.
A clinician and a cancer patient with a head scarf smile as they look down.
By Andrea Fox 10:40 am August 24, 2023
Under the White House’s National Cancer Moonshot initiative, Oracle will contribute cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise, as well as clinical and healthcare research, care delivery and scientific insights.
In a plane, a copilot points to a destination on the horizon.
By Andrea Fox 09:18 am August 24, 2023
Also: eClinicalWorks now offers a suite of patient engagement capabilities through a collaboration between Ero Health and HealthTalk A.I.
Doctor with glasses sits at a computer searching for answers.
By Andrea Fox 01:43 pm August 22, 2023
The LLMs, trained on healthcare and reimbursement concepts and terminologies, could improve population health management, care management and coordination, CRM, VBC, and self-serve analytics, the company said.
Hands search a mobile phone.
By Andrea Fox 10:19 am August 22, 2023
In its first year at Medica, HealthRules Promote supported more than 400 configuration projects and yielded an estimated $750,000 cost savings, according to the company.
Jeff Gartland of Relatient
By Bill Siwicki 10:52 am August 18, 2023
A healthcare-scheduling expert explains how intelligent tools can save providers time and money by optimizing physician capacity, accelerating patient access and cutting unnecessary staff training and administration.
Dr. Amy Lu of Denver Health
By Bill Siwicki 09:20 am August 16, 2023
In a partnership with the Denver Housing Authority, the health system has installed on-site equipment and held monthly workshops – increasing patient portal activation to 63% from 58% across five DHA communities.
Cardiac monitors in a hospital setting
By Andrea Fox 10:29 am August 15, 2023
A new study looked at how AI and NLP could be used in a post-acute discharge patient engagement program to address factors beyond social determinants of health and address emotional, behavioral and other barriers to recovery.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia
By Mike Miliard 11:00 am August 09, 2023
Sen. Mark Warner has questions for Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai about Med-PaLM 2, a chatbot currently being piloted at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere. "I worry that premature deployment of unproven technology could lead to the erosion of trust," he says.