Over the past year, the shortcomings and gaps in healthcare have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The patient and provider experience (and their respective preferences) in care delivery have been no exception to the industry’s shortcomings.
Providers and patients are looking for more convenient, efficient solutions to simplify the giving and receiving of care. Providers want more time back for face-to-face care with their patients, and patients want more affordable, convenient
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Moving Beyond EHRs: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare Digitization?
As our economy has become increasingly digitized, we are generating a massive influx of personal data. Across industries, the winning companies are those that have successfully harnessed the value of that data to create unique and personalized experiences for their customers. How we shop, travel, and handle our finances have been entirely transformed in ways that delight, engender loyalty, and generate repeat business.
Healthcare, however, has generally lagged behind other consumer industries
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“The Doctor Will See You Now” and Other Things Patients Won’t Hear Post-COVID
Following a year of social distancing and strict lockdowns, patients were forced to fundamentally change the way they interacted with their physicians. By April of last year, about half of patients’ primary care visits were conducted virtually.
And thanks to the emergency relaxation of regulations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accommodate remote diagnostics, medical device companies spurred on by tech from software giants like Microsoft and Intel, came up with innovative
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Streamline Locally to Increase Efficiency, Battle COVID Globally
People tend to think of COVID-19 as a national or even worldwide crisis. The pandemic is everywhere, after all, and we tend to judge entire nations by their reaction to the disaster and how that reaction endangers or protects the countries around them. But a pandemic is made of millions of individual stories, and those stories, whether close calls or tragedies, all take place on the ground at the local level.
While each patient’s local public health department is ultimately responsible
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4 Strategies for Health IT Leaders to Streamline Their Work & Serve Patients
As a physician turned entrepreneur, I’ve learned many lessons in my journey from the patient bedside to the health IT boardroom. As a young physician practicing in my native Denmark, my eyes were opened to the administrative headaches and limited engagement that was a result of too much paperwork and not enough focus on the patient.
Since launching one of the world’s first patient portals in 2001 and subsequently moving to the US and founding my current digital health company in 2015, I’ve
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3 Tips to Help Staffing Run Smoothly at Your COVID-19 Vaccination Site
So far 2021 has been the year of the COVID vaccine as more and more people have become eligible to receive it. As of mid-May 2021, everyone age 12 and over in the United States is able to get a vaccine and about 37.5% of the country’s total population is fully vaccinated.
It’s a great start, but as eligibility has increased, we’ve also seen certain areas struggle to set up and staff new vaccine locations. Here are three tips on how to make the staffing side of your COVID-19 vaccine site run
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Reinventing the Last Mile: Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to Our Most Vulnerable Populations
Over the past several months, the United States has rapidly accelerated its COVID-19 vaccination rates, with close to half of the population receiving at least one dose by the middle of May. With three highly effective vaccine options and numerous public-private partnerships delivering doses to the public, the country certainly appears to be on the right track to building immunity to the virus. However, a closer look at the data reveals significant concerns. There are clear and persistent
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SUD: Can Digital Health Solutions Remove Stigmas Around Addiction?
We can safely take for granted that a doctor treating your back pain isn’t going to determine the course of care based on whether she thinks you’ll fully commit to getting better. She isn’t likely to start treatment with a contract stating that the only way to stay in treatment is to commit to doing everything she requires and reaching total recovery. She isn’t going to set arbitrary parameters for how fast you should recover.
It’s also safe to assume that your quest to get care for back pain
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The Science of Storytelling: Brand Voice and the COVID-19 Vaccine
Healthcare feels like it’s in a perpetual state of a renaissance.
A decade ago, it seemed it was hardly spoken about at all. People either had it and never thought about it, or lived without it, and worried about it constantly. According to Gallup’s “Confidence in Institutions Study,” 80 percent of Americans trusted the medical system in the 1970s. By 2015, it had fallen to 37 percent.
In the era of COVID-19, people are more distrustful than ever, but we appear to have
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Hospitals Can Teach Life Science Companies a Thing or Two About Patient Engagement
The efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine focused the world’s attention on the pharmaceutical industry. Before the pandemic hit, very few people outside of the healthcare industry understood what it takes to develop a new drug. Nor did they consider the complexities of administering the various medications that require a regimen that goes beyond “take one pill each morning.”
The biopharmaceutical industry is massive, accounting for more than $1.3 trillion in economic output, representing four
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