Search Tag: patient engagement
2025 09 Jan
Value-based care (VBC) is a healthcare model aimed at improving patient outcomes while simultaneously reducing overall healthcare costs. However, despite its potential benefits, many healthcare organisations struggle to meet the quality and financial metrics required under VBC contracts. Contact centres, traditionally viewed as cost centres, are...Read more
2025 09 Jan
The pharmaceutical industry is transforming significantly as qualitative research methods, grounded in social sciences, gain prominence alongside traditional quantitative approaches. This paradigm shift reflects a growing awareness of the limitations inherent in numerical data alone when striving to understand patient behaviour, treatment experiences...Read more
2024 17 Dec
The healthcare sector is undergoing a profound transformation, transitioning towards a consumer-driven model that places patients at the centre of their health journeys. In this new paradigm, patients are not merely recipients of care but informed health citizens empowered to make health choices. However, this shift comes with challenges that...Read more
2024 09 Dec
The concept of Hospital-at-Home (HaH) programmes, originally developed in the 1990s, has developed during the COVID-19 pandemic as a solution to overwhelmed healthcare systems. In the United States, temporary waivers allowed hospitals to treat patients at home, providing acute-level care outside traditional settings. While the programme has seen...Read more
2024 04 Nov
Health literacy is fundamental for effective healthcare, enabling patients to access, understand and use health information to make informed choices. As medical care becomes increasingly complex, the need for clear and accessible communication grows. Healthcare organisations must prioritise delivering comprehensible information to support patients...Read more
2024 04 Nov
Integrating AI in healthcare's revenue cycle management (RCM) and financial operations reshapes how these functions are carried out. While many organisations currently use AI for routine tasks and data analysis, emerging generative and predictive AI technologies promise to bridge gaps between administrative, financial and patient-focused care....Read more
2024 07 Oct
Patient engagement in clinical trials is vital, as it improves the trial design, ensures accurate data collection, and helps retain patients throughout the trial duration. Understanding technological advancements is essential for healthcare professionals to support patients and make clinical trials a more seamless experience. Here are five ways...Read more
2024 06 Feb
Emory Healthcare's innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance medication management and support caregivers has been outlined in a recent interview by HIMSS Media, shedding light on the transformative impact of automation in healthcare. Technology Serving Medication Adherence Dr. Alistair Erskine, Chief Information...Read more
2021 29 Jan
Presenters Dr. Chethan Bachireddy Chief Medical Officer, Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services Sarah Grant Communications Director, Maine DHHS (MaineCare) Traylor Rains JD, Deputy State Medicaid Director, Oklahoma DHS (SoonerCare) Find CCHP on Social Media Read more
2020 29 Jan
Summary: Endless noise about new technologies in healthcare has providers struggling to find valuable tools among the vapourware. Conversations with thousands of providers, payers, and vendors can help us predict what healthcare will probably look like in 10 years. In healthcare, uncertainty about the future can yield damning apprehension or...Read more
2019 19 Nov
With the ongoing transition to value-based care, the importance of technology is growing, for patient engagement increase, data management for informed decision-making and introduction of more effective treatments. However, the advancement of all these is complicated by limited resources and lack of reimbursement. Such are the conclusions of the...Read more
2019 13 Nov
Summary: A medical communications expert looks at how industry’s relationship with the patient has changed over 25 years and what is necessary for successful future liaison. It is twenty-five years since I first started working in medical communications and with patient organisations. In 1995 there was no such thing as ‘patient-centred...Read more
2019 12 Nov
Attempts to bring health and care (medic, public and social) research closer with the public has been on NHS’s agenda since early 2000s. Under the ‘p atient and public involvement’ (PPI) initiative, the National Institute for HealthResearch (NIHR) , the largest funder of health and care research in the UK, is committed to align research more...Read more
2019 15 Oct
Dr. Hisam Alahdab, MD, FCCP, MSHQS, is the Chief Operating, Quality and Safety Officer at Anadolu Medical Center, Turkey . As well as this job role, Dr. Alahdab also holds a position on the Patient Safety Committee and Quality Council here. His role involves overseeing the whole process of clinical quality whilst also initiating strategies to implement patient...Read more
2019 26 Aug
mHealth has gained considerable momentum in recent years, but, contrary to common perception, mHealth is not limited to mobile health. It has a broad application across healthcare, including the use of biosensors, wearable personal technology, precision medicine, personalised care, patient engagement, and patient empowerment. We could say mHealth is...Read more
2019 26 Aug
Summary: How can healthcare leverage mHealth and the parallel movement towards consumerism to better patient engagement? In 2012, my passion for healthcare deepened when my wife, Janet, was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. She received wonderful care from her healthcare providers, but Janet and I often felt that we were left to make...Read more
2019 21 Jan
Prevention, patient autonomy and use of digital goods A digital health coaching platform offers sustainable support of the elderly population to improve their mental, emotional and physical fitness. The German healthcare system is still one of the best in the world. Nevertheless, for many years the contribution of healthcare...Read more
2018 04 Dec
In today’s fiercely competitive world, where nontraditional players in healthcare are aiming to disrupt the industry and seize a share of the pie, healthcare executives need to constantly be on the alert and come up with new strategies for engaging patients across the care continuum. Not only is technology constantly evolving, but there has also been...Read more
2018 07 Nov
I am a cancer patient. I have experience first-hand how society’s view on patients deals a massive blow to your own sense of self-worth. Friends stop calling you, or they call you way too much. Healthcare professionals are too stressed out to talk to you. To top it all, you are limited to doing absolutely nothing for several months, or even years....Read more
2018 07 Nov
Challenges and opportunities for keeping engaged. With patient engagement there comes increasing responsibility – on the patient, their family and the provider. HealthManagement.org spoke to four leading patient advocates for their views on approaching patient engagement and the challenges that lie ahead. Dave deBronkart...Read more
2018 07 Nov
The key to caring for the whole patient. Person and family engagement (PFE) has been called the blockbuster drug of the 21st century. How can hospitals implement engagement so that patients and families are partners in patient safety? What if I told you there is a new medicine that could accelerate medical error prevention, improve...Read more
2017 03 Apr
Cost is always an important issue in healthcare, and a new report from Press Ganey shows hospitals with better patient experience scores also reaped financial benefits. See Also : Why Don’t We Introduce Patients Into Healthcare Management? Press Ganey’s annual “Strategic Insights” report examined patient experience scores, care quality data...Read more
2016 07 Feb
Innovations are key to improving quality of care and lowering costs. Some innovations that work in one context, however, may not work in another. A Viewpoint article appearing in JAMA discusses how implementation science can be used as a framework for planning innovations in healthcare delivery. 1. A Framework Based on Implementation Science Implementation...Read more
2014 24 Jun
For half of UK patients with chronic medical conditions, the ability to access and control their health data online takes precedence over privacy risks associated with electronic health records. An Accenture Patient Engagement Survey conducted between 21 February and 16 March 2014 polled 519 healthy people and 500 individuals in the UK...Read more