Patient Engagement

Hazel Jones, program director of Apps & Wearables at NHS Digital talks about the wide range of healthcare apps that were put through a stringent assessment process before being made available in the UK's NHS apps library.

Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities, says that clinicians can be inventors, and embrace change – as he learned at the UK's Royal London Hospital – by ensuring the patient voice remains prominent when developing innovative strategies at a leadership level.

Dunedin, the second largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the principal city of the Otago region, is currently making plans for a new digital hospital.

The mobile patient engagement system also cut no-shows by half and increased the number of referred patients seen by 25 percent.

A new report looks at nearly 20 vendors and sees that the market for texting tech is changing – as is the way providers are using the tools.

Through the technology, the provider organization also has collected 635 online reviews for its website.

Pivot Labs, a collaboration with tech services company Persistent Systems, will also seek innovative ways to boost clinical outcomes and manage costs.

Further, 38 percent of online appointments are booked after hours, which helps with both patient retention and new patient acquisition.

Apps and devices will evolve and tools already around us will become instruments of health to advance tailor-made care delivery and treatments.