Patient Engagement

The health insurer also said it will integrate Apple’s device with its own care management and wellness tools, and arm 50,000 of its own employees with Apple’s device. 

10 Tips for enhancing care by empowering and educating patients. 

The goal of the program is to reduce the number of missed care visits for low-income, disabled or elderly patients.

The urgent care center said it will combine the par8o technology with its care coordination services to better match patients with specialists. 

The cognitive computing software can inform users about how specific foods will influence their glucose levels, track diets over time and spot otherwise hidden patterns in that data. 

Whereas the quantified-self movement attracted significant capital in fitness and wellness, the authors spotted a gradual shift toward increased investment activity in clinically focused categories, notably disease management, remote monitoring and communications.

Wearable devices, often associated with health and fitness, may not be useful tools for weight loss, according to a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

With Onxy and Intel technology, USF Health built its Pharmacy Plus system, which enables patient engagement, and thus helps reduce hospital readmissions.

The organization is joining forces with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Children’s Hospital Colorado and UCHealth to create a health innovation hub in the Rocky Mountains. 

Penn Medicine chief information officer Mike Restuccia highlights the trends and tools improving care delivery and celebrates health IT professionals for facilitating their use to engage patients.