Patient Engagement

San Francisco start-up Tiatros, a doctor-driven, patient-centered social network, has joined the IBM Watson Ecosystem, the companies announced March 2 at HIMSS16.

LAS VEGAS – TigerText Inc.

West Healthcare has launched at HIMSS16 a communication system designed to automate patient engagement and extend investments in population health

Report to be published on Thursday at HIMSS16 also shows 85 percent of doctors said that using wearables can help patients become more involved.

David Weinstock, MD, and Raymond Magner of Grove Medical Associates say EHR implementation is just the first step.

Honors for innovation range from a mental joystick to delivering a unified view of a patient.

LAS VEGAS - As healthcare moves into a more globally connected environment and government programs, such as those from CMS determine what costs should be for providers, organizations must look toward non-labor needs to improve care outcomes and reduce costs, according to Mark Ziemianski, vice president, Business Analytics at Children's Health System of Texas.

CHIME touts OpenNotes partnership, early success of National Patient ID Challenge; opening keynoter talks challenges and opportunities of patient-generated data.

New tool analyzes data to pinpoint care gaps and identify service lines where patients are seeking care elsewhere. 

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute announced a plan to make it easy for individuals to access data in their electronic health records and share it for research that could improve care for their conditions.