Patient Access

Cedars-Sinai's new Safe Transition Home initiative aims to reduce hospital readmissions and improve outcomes by smoothly transitioning people from the inpatient setting to their homes.

Healthcare and other industries are on the cusp of a new age of enlightened consumers that recognize the value of sharing data to foster innovations otherwise not possible.

Google, the world's most used search engine, is partnering with two of the world's leading health organizations to take the confusion out of symptom searching.

New alliance with CMIO group another step toward expanding to 50 million people in the next three years.

Connected, engaged patients are no longer the future, but today’s reality. Jump into this Healthcare Perspectives to learn about advances in consumer and health-focused technology.

Researchers point to 'Total Active Risk' model to better address care coordination, patient activation.

Skillsets are changing rapidly. Hospitals must move quickly to keep pace. Experts from Advocate, Geisinger, University of California San Francisco and University of Mississippi Medical Center share best practices and lessons learned. 

The move would empower patients to control their own data, according to Ricky Bloomfield, MD, of Duke Health, and help eradicate the tradition of paternalism in medicine.

The noted physician, software engineer and open science champion said that the hardest part of big data is knowing what questions to ask and finding people capable of figuring that out.

The cloud-based service, dubbed myAva, can be used to analyze biometric, genomic, molecular and patient-generated data to create digital profiles of patients that inform care plans.