Patient Engagement

The clinical analytics tool is improving engagement metrics at Tennessee-based Psychiatric Medical Care, helping report aggregate data to the board and The Joint Commission, informing performance evaluations – and offering something quantifiable to show patients and families.

Asad Lilani, political strategy director at the Access Challenge, says the NGO recruits regional influencers and community members for its African vaccination campaigns. Their messages appear on each region's favored communications platform.

Thierry Marchal of Ansys and researcher María Angeles Pérez discuss how combining clinical data and mathematical models to create digital simulations can increase precision across specialties and expedite patient treatment.  

Gold Coast Health is helping keep patients with chronic diseases out of its busy ED.

Videha Sharma, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, explains the NHS’s plan to expand pharmacogenetics, or how people’s genetic codes influence the effects of drugs, beyond specialist care to general practice.

Trinity Health reaches out to patients on their preferred platform to encourage them to make needed visits. Dr. Roosevelt De Los Santos, its medical director for health informatics, describes why it works.  

Launching telemedicine from within the patient portal – which enables the health system to get electronic signoff on certain documents – is a big boon for compliance and efficiency.