What You Should Know: Northwell Health and Playback Health sign multiyear deal to launch patient engagement platform at clinical sites across health system. Northwell Health, New York State’s largest health care provider and Playback Health, a software technology company dedicated to helping care providers build deeper, more meaningful connections with their patients, today announced a multiyear agreement to launch Playback’s patient engagement platform at select locations
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Healthcare Leaders: The Importance of Embracing Patient Engagement
We are incredibly lucky to live in a historically connected world. The internet, smartphones, and technology of all kinds have brought people together in ways unimaginable just a few decades ago. These massive communications paradigm shifts have also left their mark on medicine, although in an unpredictable way. One of the most positive impacts on healthcare hasn’t been a breakthrough treatment or therapy – but an increase in patient engagement and a deep understanding of its importance in
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Health Catalyst to Acquire Patient Engagement Platform Twistle – M&A
What You Should Know: - Health Catalyst, a provider of healthcare data and analytics solution announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Twistle, Inc. ("Twistle"), an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based healthcare patient engagement platform. The acquisition was funded using a combination of cash and stock. - Founded in 2011, Twistle’s SaaS patient engagement platform automates patient-centered, HIPAA-compliant communication between care teams and patients to transform
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Surprise! Patient Engagement is About the Individual
It’s well understood that patient engagement leads to better outcomes. A powerful way to boost engagement is by delivering a personalized care experience so that patients can manage their condition in a way that best aligns with their lifestyle and goals. Two of the most effective patient engagement initiatives include: 1) clinicians spending more time with patients and, 2) shared decision making. Although clinicians would prefer more face-to-face time with patients to better assess their
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Patient Experience 2.0: A Shift in Priorities Defined by A Year of the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the healthcare continuum within the past year, creating many roadblocks in the path towards high-quality care delivery. Amid these challenges, we have witnessed a significant shift in patient wants and needs, in addition to heightened demand for accessible, convenient clinical care. Notably, the desire for more care processes to be performed digitally has emerged as a priority among patients. According to a recent survey by Accenture about patient behaviors, 60%
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WELL Health Integrates with Cerner’s Patient Portal to Simplify Patient Communication
What You Should Know: - Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its provider customers. - Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce administrative time for clinicians and staff. Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, today announced new capabilities designed to take the interaction
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4 Ways to Combat Hidden Costs Associated with Delayed Patient Care During COVID-19
COVID-19 terms such as quarantine, flatten the curve, social distance, and personal protective equipment (PPE) have dominated headlines in recent months, but what hasn’t been discussed in length are the hidden costs of COVID-19 as it relates to patient adherence. The coronavirus pandemic has amplified this long-standing issue in healthcare as patients are delaying routine preventative and ongoing care for ailments such as mental health and chronic disease. Emergency care is also
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CloudMD Acquires Digital Patient Engagement Platform iMD Health Global for $10M
What You Should Know: - CloudMD announces it will acquire digital patient engagement platform iMD Health Global for $10M - The integration of iMD’s educational platform will enable CloudMD to provide its entire network of over 3000 healthcare practitioners, specialists, and allied health professionals and almost 3 million patients with valuable educational resources on healthcare issues, treatments, and preventative solutions. CloudMD Software & Services Inc., a Vancouver,
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Dealing with Medical Malpractice as a Doctor Amid a Pandemic
Coronavirus is a deadly virus with a high transmission rate. It has become so widespread that it has now disrupted the economies of every country on the planet. Since it is a novel virus, there are still tons about it that we do not know. However, one thing rings true—the health and safety of the general public is of utmost importance. Who is at the helm of all this? All the medical frontline workers who are risking their lives to contain the virus and treat all
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Report: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Patient Communications
What You Should Know: - Data from Luma Health reveals stark gaps in the volume and cadence of COVID-19-related messages sent between doctors and patients. - California, one of the states hit early and hard by COVID-19, increased patient communications more than 91x over, with 206,000 messages broadcast between late January and March; New York saw a 16x increase over the same period (both states with approximately the same number of cases in early March). - During the month of
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