Patient Access

Cerner and Epic have their own IPS products, but most hospitals are sticking with dedicated vendors.

Company serves up content on digital waiting room screens and interactive touchscreens in patient exam rooms.

If there’s one point a recent session at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo 2017 brought home, it’s that if providers and payers are going to manage their members as a population, they need to start by knowing them individually.

Incubated at Providence Health and UPMC, both Epic shops, Xealth enables doctors to prescribe more than pills.

While doctors want to know everything they can, public health is far more cautionary when it comes to screenings.

Mount Sinai has a “little big data group,” LifeBridge and Thomas Jefferson also foster clinical innovation teams, and they all say experimentation, evidence, rigor and risk are needed to succeed.

The Silicon Valley company brings with a number of applications, including a personal assistant program integrated with EHRs and artificial intelligence aimed at patient engagement.

Electronic prescribing of controlled substances was up 256 percent in 2016, company says.

Some industry observers say the technology is poised for greatness while others insist it has a long way to go.

Alphabet’s growth equity investment fund CapitalG is among 50 investors in the company that aims to help healthcare providers and their patients make healthcare decisions.