Patient Engagement

GE Healthcare's Simon Rost discusses the value of technology in improving outcomes and the GE solutions that are helping improve patient care.

At Jordan Valley Community Health Center, a $740,000 award from the FCC meant it was able to deploy clinic-based telemedicine kiosks and home-based virtual care units, all while a NextGen EHR integration is in process.

Extracting high-quality data can improve patient outcomes by providing personalized treatments more efficiently via digital solutions, says Thryve founder and CEO Friedrich Lämmel.

Since launching the new systems, the health system has increased organic traffic to its website by nearly 30% and increased provider data accuracy by the same percentage.

A new survey released this week found that overall customer satisfaction with telehealth is high, but barriers to access remain.

Seamlessly integrated technology platforms helped healthcare organisations react swiftly to the coronavirus pandemic, ensuring safe and secure patient care after the world shut down. Now, that same technology is forever changing the way doctors and patients interact.  

Interdisciplinary care, when delivered in real time via telemedicine, helped all team members share their knowledge – a big improvement over delivering that expertise separately.

Despite a looming second wave of coronavirus, organisations around the world prepare for employees to return to their offices. A digital symptom checker like the one developed by Infermedica can help protecting employees and fight the virus.

At Ohio-based Harbor, telemedicine services are up 564% compared with 2019. From March to August this year, the provider treated 15,259 patients via remote consult with help from its Lighthouse Telehealth subsidiary.

While more than half of the leaders polled say their telehealth experience has been a positive one, they saw some barriers too, including some patients' challenges using the new technologies.