Patient Engagement
By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News
Lacee Badgley, the mother of a seven-year-old, works full time as an insurance adjuster.
The platform, developed by Yale School of Medicine researchers and Yale New Haven Health System, is designed to enable patients to both access their records and participate in studies.
The health system’s CEO said it is creating an innovation arm to improve the patient experience as well as post-acute and behavioral health services.
The health system’s CIO said implementing the platform will enable it to improve care while reducing cost and risk.
The funding will span more than 20 projects to address several of healthcare’s biggest burdens, according to the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
The sheer number and variety of providers that patients see after leaving a hospital make medical mistakes and poor transitions in care all too common today.
Michael Middleton, MD, credits online patient portals with helping him grow his Orlando, Florida-based pediatric practice more than three-fold in two-and-a-half years – while keeping staff cost increases at 20 percent.
Marking a "new chapter as a company," Nokia Technologies announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire French connected health device maker Withings for $191 million.
Everseat also aligned with Lyft to help patients get to appointments.
New York's Mount Sinai Health System is joining other high-profile health systems across the nation in embracing OpenNotes, an initiative that gives patients access to their care provider's notes in their medical records.