Patient Engagement

Interoperability agreements between public health systems, along with centralized consent management for sharing healthcare and other data, are must-haves for advancing health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.

The care management platform also announced a partnership with a large family medicine practice with offices in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.

Users of Helpful can now access a loved one's benefit information about their New York-based health plan and select medical records through its app.

Its partnership with Freshpaint seeks to support hospitals, health systems and health plans by configuring their patient engagement ecosystems to support compliance with HIPAA privacy rules and regulations.

A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that "ongoing telemedicine use is fairly effective in having limited return office visits, low emergency visit rates, and very low hospitalization rates compared to office visits."

DUOS uses large language models to leverage social determinants of health and enhance care-navigation access for Medicare beneficiaries. Feedback from platform users improves the artificial intelligence, said Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO.

Individuals increased their use of apps to access their online medical records between 2020 and 2022, while web-only access to portals decreased, according to an analysis of national survey data.

Scandinavian digital health firm DNV Imatis has joined forces with the Western Norway Regional Health Authority to launch a new digital solution.

Also, Queensland University is replacing legacy IT systems across its network of clinics.

OCR's new resources aim to shore up telehealth privacy practices by helping healthcare organizations guide patients in basic cyber hygiene that can better protect their PHI when accessing virtual care through websites and apps.