Patient Engagement

A HIMSS Analytics survey of 153 physicians, nurses and pharmacists and 1,131 patients and their families shows that patients trust providers to deliver safe care and yet patients still experience medication errors.

University Health System in Texas is using analytics and marketing technology to better identify community needs.

Health IT professionals offer their opinions about what the project might be able to accomplish for patient engagement and consumer-mediated exchange – and how ready smaller providers might be to someday try it themselves.

By replacing two Cerner systems, the North Carolina health system aims for a broader view, helping its physicians, nurses and IT staff work more collaboratively to serve patients with what it described as a comprehensive health record.

Richard Milani, MD, said healthcare is headed for big changes and the sooner hospitals and practices get on board with connected consumers and easy access to data, the better off they'll be.

Companies say the cross-sector partnership will create open source platform that it hopes other tech companies will use to innovate.

Patients are increasingly seeking tech-savvy healthcare providers but the majority are not budgeting for tools that improve engagement or communication with consumers in 2018, opening the doors for major disruption.

Dignity Health's chief digital officer explains why he thinks Apple can succeed for population health and precision medicine efforts where other PHR launches have not.

Expert speakers will exchange tips for turning troves of complex information into lasting clinical, financial and operational improvements at the June 13-14 event in San Francisco.

Rice University student developers have designed the application, which could help with some of the gait problems that can affect people with Parkinson's.