Patient Engagement

Ally Hunter of Henry Ford Health on virtual care
By Bill Siwicki 12:09 pm December 16, 2024
Conversations have only started in the past few years about what digital equity is and how it applies to telemedicine and virtual care. Here's what the Detroit-based health system has learned so far.
Stethoscope on tablet
By Susan Morse 10:37 am December 16, 2024
Customer Relationship Management is the final piece in integrating the clinical, financial and communications sides of the patient's journey.
Person sits at table with a laptop while holding a pill bottle
By Andrea Fox 11:11 am December 13, 2024
A health analytics company is partnering with pharma to allow patients to unify their health information across multiple providers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the DTP platform analyzes medical records and makes recommendations. 
Dr. Nick Patel of Pivot Point Consulting on digital transformation
By Bill Siwicki 09:59 am December 11, 2024
Cut length of stay? Slash readmissions? Boost value-based care? Keep nurses from leaving? Power chronic care management? A physician digital transformation consultant explains how transforming can achieve all of this and more.
A proposed self-evolving virtual hospital concept by Tsinghua University
By Adam Ang 09:04 pm December 09, 2024
A project in China that is developing an autonomous and self-evolving virtual healthcare setting is targeted to go public next year.
The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network
By Bill Siwicki 01:31 pm December 09, 2024
The health system's chief digital officer has the numbers to prove it. DTx have helped patients relearn driving after car accidents, manage the grief of losing a spouse and gain confidence to leave a career that's not working, he says.
Technician puts ECG stickers on the chest of personabout to enter an MRI machine
By Andrea Fox 10:08 am December 06, 2024
Also: New genAI tools and agents launch to help doctors and nurses at large health systems and small providers reduce their administrative burdens.
First robotic cardiac surgery in Indonesia
By Adam Ang 05:12 am December 06, 2024
Also, the South Korean government will pilot an electronic system to maintain the patient medical records at shuttered health facilities. 
Kasih Ibu Hospital in Denpasar, Bali
By Adam Ang 01:59 am December 04, 2024
Kasih Ibu Hospital Group is the second Indonesian hospital to be validated for the EMR maturity model.
A person checking their smartwatch-tracked fitness data on their smartphone.
By Adam Ang 07:30 am November 25, 2024
The Health Promotion Board is piloting two preventative health programmes with Google and Abbott involving 6,000 Singaporeans.