Patient Engagement

Mental telehealth visits for men are up 79% since January, the telemedicine provider reports, with rates for women not far behind.

Christian Counseling Associates has retained 100% of its client base throughout the pandemic thanks to EHR-linked telemedicine technology.

After the roll out in Victoria and Sydney, there will be a staged expansion of e-prescriptions across the rest of the country.

The trust is the first in the UK to be validated at the highest level for its EMR capabilities. 

As we have heard repeatedly over the past few months, there is a need to think of managing this pandemic in the same way we prepare for a marathon rather than a sprint, says Dr Charles Alessi, chief clinical officer, HIMSS.  

Dr. Anthony Chang, chief intelligence and innovation officer at CHOC and founder of AIMed, talks about how machine learning is transforming imaging, decision support, clinical workflow and physician-patient interaction.

Hundreds of thousands of apps aimed at treating a wide variety of conditions are available – but their efficacy and quality remains largely unclear.

Clinicians, vendors and telehealth advocates stress the importance of virtual services in expanding access to care – and noted the ways it still needs to improve. 

With an appointment-reminders solution alone managing 100,000 reminders per month, the health system reduced its no-show rate from 7% to 5%, leading to the savings.