Patient Engagement

Initial findings from a three-year analysis from athenahealth suggest the idea that providers' use of digital patient outreach tools increase documentation burdens is a misconception.

Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs.

Ed Mitchell, director, strategic partnerships at Advocate Health, says simplifying technology choices and reducing technical debt can unlock opportunities to enhance patient engagement with improved experience design strategies.

Mayo Clinic's decentralized trials are investigating how to best integrate the clinical trial experience into a patient’s life and routine care, say researchers ahead of their HIMSS25 presentation.

Mass personalization at scale can be done through technology, says Mudit Garg, CEO and cofounder of Qventus.  

Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Efficient engagement is critical for patient-centric, prevention-oriented and personalized care, says CIO Yanyan HU who is speaking at HIMSS25.

Dr. Samuel Browd of UW and Seattle Children's hospital, and the CMO at Proprio, discusses the questions he's hearing from patients about artificial intelligence in healthcare, and describes how AI is changing how he practices and performs surgery.

"Both the image and the report have to be available to anyone involved in the care of the patient, at any time from anywhere – including the patient," says the health system's chief health informatics officer Dr. David Kaelber in a HIMSS25 preview.