Patient Engagement

It also eliminated 10 hours of reminder phone calls and increased payment of old accounts by 15 percent, Salt Lake Retina reports.

In the month of July, we'll speak to experts about how they're managing their workforces – not just clinicians, but IT departments, data scientists, care managers, back office staff and others.

Cutting Edge Integrative Pain Centers delivers personalized tools to its patients, who report higher satisfaction and better outcomes.

Walking the fine line between optimal communication and regulatory compliance, IT must engage business leaders with the results of the risk assessments they routinely perform.

German care-tech provider Media4Care wants to simplify access to the digital world for older people, their carers and relatives.

Severance Hospital, one of the oldest and biggest university hospitals in South Korea, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Korean startup MediBloc to build a blockchain-based medical information platform.  Based on the MoU, MediBloc will build the medical information platform, an insurance claims billing platform and a medical data forgery detection system to facilitate the sharing of medical information via individuals. Severance Hospital plans to establish a certificate document issuance system and e-card issuance system for patients. Both parties will also cooperate actively by jointly utilising their facilities, human resources, and cooperation networks. THE LARGER TREND Last November, Korea’s Myongji Hospital signed an agreement with BICube to co-develop a blockchain-based medical information exchange. Both parties plan to commercialise the blockchain-based service by 2019. In December 2018, Massachusetts General Hospital in the US announced that it will be working with MediBloc on a three-year blockchain pilot to co-develop new methods for security and interoperability, with a focus on patient engagement. ON THE RECORD “We are delighted to build a patient-centred platform with MediBloc, which is leading the blockchain-based medical information platform,” said Lee Byung-seok, General Director, Severance Hospital in a statement. “By working with MediBloc, we will be able to provide personalised medicine and digital healthcare to patients at Severance Hospital through the establishment of an integrated medical information system.” “We will continue our comprehensive consultation for building a platform with Severance Hospital, which is recognised for its excellent medical team and service,” said Allen Kho, Co-CEO, MediBloc. 

And benefits extend into areas it has not yet been able to quantify. For instance, the physicians group anticipates increased savings created by the filling of appointment slots that more quickly opened due to the technology.

46 participants spoke common drug names to Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa, and results varied. More R&D is needed, experts say.

A University of Sydney study found that goggles could offer very high accuracy of diagnosis of conditions such as Ménière disease or vestibular migraine, similar to in-clinic hearing tests.

The pioneering Pennsylvania health system has picked Ryu, who most recently served as its chief medical officer, to replace Dr. David Feinberg, who joined Google in 2018.