Patient Engagement

The Venture Fund challenge will award winners money, mentorship and the opportunity to pilot emerging technologies.   

The authors of a Health Affairs report also suggested that policymakers could use Yelp to identify which quality measures are most important to doctors and patients. 

Healthcare leaders are focused on the potentially conflicting market forces as rising consumer expectations and care transformation are reshaping the industry, according to the Advisory Board Company.  

Price transparency tools can help patients make more educated purchasing decisions. But they must include information on both cost and quality to be effective. 

Across the healthcare industry, "the state of decision-making is really bad." Following the so-called Three Ps could point a way forward.

(SPONSORED) With value-based care models taking hold, healthcare organizations are under pressure to deliver the best clinical outcomes.

The PC maker also signed an agreement to enable the Dubai Health Authority to make an insurance program work with new EHR.

"We believe that mobile devices such as iPhones will become the predominant means by which patients interact with BIDMC," says Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD. "Your phone will be the repository of your medical record."

Leading providers are already thinking about how to transform themselves from data-driven to information-driven organizations, able to offer drastically improved patient experience akin to Amazon and Google. But it's not easy.

Substance use disorder treatment centers are notoriously behind in technology, but Kemah Palms Recovery has implemented the tracking tech and an EHR to improve outcomes and report value.