Think back to the last time you read a negative review about a restaurant. After reading the review, you probably dismissed the restaurant and considered other places to eat.Now, imagine you’re a patient considering options for an outpatient procedure and you came upon negative reviews about a provider. Chances are, you probably skipped that provider and opted for a consult with someone else. As providers, how can we fix this? Now, more than ever, patient satisfaction matters, especially given
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CareCloud Adds Spanish to Patient Experience Platform, Breeze
Medical groups using CareCloud's eCommerce platform Breeze en Español to help patients manage and pay for their healthcareAs part of a continued drive to improve every aspect of a patient’s experience and make healthcare more accessible, CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, is making its patient experience management platform, Breeze, available in Spanish. Through Breeze en Español, medical groups now will be able to remove the complexity and difficulty of scheduling,
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Breaking: CMS Proposes Historic Changes to Restore the Doctor-Patient Relationship & Streamline Clinical Billing
CMS proposed historic changes to Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the Quality Payment Program (QPP) to restore the doctor-patient relationship and streamline clinical billing.On Thursday, , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed historic changes that would increase the amount of time that doctors and other clinicians can spend with their patients by reducing the burden of paperwork that clinicians face when billing Medicare. The proposed rules would fundamentally improve
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Capturing Patient Experience: Current Challenges & Future Needs Report
Today’s healthcare organizations (HCOs) are under increasing pressure to develop effective models for capturing patient experience data for quality performance scores, as the recent CMS 2019 policy changes made clear when they adjusted the weightings for Star Ratings measures. This in turn is motivating executives to gather data about the patient experience in real-time and not retrospectively, in theory enabling them to adjust policies and practices more effectively. However, they are likely to
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Partners Healthcare Taps Circulation to Bring On-Demand Medical Transportation to Patients
Circulation Health, a on-demand medical transportation exchange that coordinates transportation logistics for health organizations, today announced an agreement with Partners Healthcare, an integrated, not-for-profit health system with facilities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.As part of the collaboration, Partners will utilize Circulation's on-demand ride technology, which interfaces with Lyft, to move patients to and from their appointments. The relationship also allows for expansion to
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Why Understanding Your Patients’ Emotions Is Key to Improving Patient Experience
Understanding your patients' emotions is the key to improve your healthcare business' performance. It can show you on what fronts you're lacking and guide you to find ways to improve upon those fronts. The process used to understand patients' emotions is called patient sentiment analysis. It can help your healthcare business to not only perform better but also grow consistently. A healthcare business' consistent growth relies upon two things:1. A high level of patient experience, resulting in a
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Telehealth App Medici Lands $22M to Re-imagine the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Medici, an Austin, TX-based digital health startup focused on the future of doctors and patients has raised $22 million in Series A funding from individual investors including executives from well-known global companies such as Citadel, Dell, Publix, and Starwood Capital. The latest round brings the total amount of funding raised to date to $46.6 million.Today’s doctors are buried with regulatory requirements, administrative hurdles and downward pressure on their own costs to run their
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Oneview Healthcare Expands Patient Experience Platform to Thailand & UAE
Oneview Healthcare, PLC (“Oneview”), a global leader in patient experience, today announced an expansion in their global footprint by signing a new contract with Bumrungrad International Hospital (“Bumrungrad”) in Bangkok, Thailand. The new three-year contract involves deploying the Oneview solution in 497 beds and 110 digital signage locations at Bumrungrad’s flagship hospital at Sukhumvit 3 in Bangkok. In addition, an existing Oneview customer, Mediclinic Middle East in the UAE, (part of
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Luma Health Raises $6.33M for Patient-Provider Communications Platform
Luma Health, a San Francisco, CA-based smart patient-provider communications platform, today announced it has completed a $6.33 Million round of Series A funding led by U.S. Venture Partners along with continued participation from the Stanford-StartX Fund and existing investors. Luma Health plans to used the latest round of funding to extend its go-to-market operation, including sales and marketing, while also expanding its engineering team to support the company’s growing product roadmap. The
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Wellist Lands $10M to Expand Integrated Patient Experience Solutions
Wellist, a Boston-based digital health startup focused in delivering Integrated Patient Experience Solutions to to address social determinants of health across their entire patient population has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Summation Health Ventures. This investment will enable Wellist to expand in several key geographic markets and enhance its proprietary digital health platform that connects patients to non-medical support services. The patient experience market has grown
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