Can You Hear Me Now? A Patient Portal Initiative Program to Increase Patient Engagement in an Outpatient Primary Care Setting
Patient portals are an effective way of engaging patients to become active participants in their health; however, getting patients to actively use portals in the outpatient setting is challenging.
Data and Prevention’s Place in Digital Health Engagement
This article explores one health care professional's pivot away from acute care and down a career path focused on modifying patient behavior, promoting healthy actions and reducing patient health threats, thereby focusing on empowering patients to avoid high-risk health scenarios, to en...
Engaging Patients in Digital Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic Webinar
This on-demand webinar gives an up-close look at organizations across the healthcare industry that are working to engage patients in digital communications and direct them to relevant health resources within their communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Advancing Patient Experience and Outcomes with Analytics
This article explores the social determinants of health impact on healthcare and ways to close critical care gaps, including cancer screenings using advanced analytics and psychographic segmentation to identify at-risk patients, tailor communications and care settings, and increase patient engage...
Improving Electronic Patient Portal Use in Groups with Low Utilization at a Family Medicine Practice
Electronic patient portals benefit health outcomes; yet, they are underutilized in certain patient sub-populations including adolescents, adults over age 65, racial/ethnic minorities, and non-English-speaking patients.
Consumers or Patients? How Data Can Boost Preventative Healthcare and Reduce the Cost of Care
Providing patients with the best data about their healthcare could help them make better preventative choices, reducing the cost of care.
Physician and Nurse Informatics Collaboration Boosts Clinical Practice, Engagement, and Overall Digital Experience
This white paper reflects on the history and current state of the nurse-physician informatics professional relationship as an opportunity to align and standardize education, role definition and the overall effects of these specialties.
Interoperability and Putting the Patient at the Center of the Discussion
Our HIMSS Interoperability & HIE Committee member explains how in a patient-centered world, interoperability means patients should have access to their data and can share this data how they see fit.
Advance Directives: The Patient’s Voice
Patients rightly expect that care will be aligned to their personal values and wishes, yet far too often their voice isn’t heard or understood completely. Over the past two years, this disparity has become significant as many patients have come to the emergency room alone and unresponsive, only...
ICU Patient Care in an Isolation Room
Severely infectious patients, such as those with COVID-19, put healthcare workers (HCWs) at greater risk of infection due to their frequency and time in contact with infected patients.
Clinical Surveillance, A Concept Analysis: Leveraging Real-Time Data and Advanced Analytics to Anticipate Patient Deterioration. Bringing Theory in Practice.
Jahrsdoerfer, M. (Winter 2019). Clinical Surveillance, A Concept Analysis: Leveraging real-time data and advanced analytics to anticipate patient deterioration. Bringing theory in practice.
Evaluation of a Telehealth Website System for Patients with Total Hip Arthroplasty
This article in the OJNI outlines how healthcare in Japan supported its total hip arthroplasty patients with online support.