Patient Engagement

At Gerald Champion RMC, the telemedicine technology is integrated with the EHR. It has proven easy to use for patients, even seniors and technophobes.

A health app that allows parents to access NHS paediatricians and midwives has come under fire for operating without a Care Quality Commission (CQC) registration.

A bipartisan bill introduced this week would allow providers to offer audio-only telemedicine services to Medicare enrollees.

Further, the health system achieved lowered readmissions, and patients who received post-discharge outreach were 32% less likely to be readmitted following their initial hospitalization or ER discharge.

The bug allowed providers to access the scheduling vendor's system after their usernames and passwords were intended to be limited.

Dr. Maulik Majmudar, who developed Halo at Amazon and now serves as chief medical officer at Biofourmis, discusses why remote patient monitoring must become remote patient management.

In the series premiere of The Virtual Care Paradigm, Sherpaa founder and CEO Jay Parkinson discusses the difference between the new world of asynchronous, tool-based virtual care and traditional video visit telehealth.

The network of surveillance hubs will identify and track new COVID variants and emerging diseases.

As more users go to the web first for health information, health systems are seeking to provide relevant, evidence-based content that will make their patient engagement platforms "sticky," says Christian Patrick, VP of clinical decisions at EBSCO.

While the organization's website is now accessible, along with some "read-only" medical records, its patient portal is still down.