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"Why should we have emojis?" one study participant said, reflecting frustration with the lack of shared understanding about texting systems.

These are some of the big challenges as hospitals and health systems endeavor to operate as a single system of care.

Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results, discusses the Unblock Health patient advocacy movement to assist patients in managing the administrative burdens of a cancer or chronic illness diagnosis.

Too often, people think narrowly about integration, viewing it only in terms of making sure one system can talk to another. It must be far more than that.

While some hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are already making reasonable use of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) systems, the overall picture of adoption and progress tends to be more fragmented. 

Apple, Google and Microsoft plan to implement capabilities that will allow users to sign into websites and applications without a password.

Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, describes how technology can help track hallmark indicators and better engage patients for quality care.

The framework, which leaders hope will start working in 2025, will potentially harness the health data of nearly 450 million people, facilitating cross-border care and opening opportunities for research.

The technology has increased the percentage of patients scheduling digitally enabled visits by 65%, and 30% of patients coming in through DexCare-enabled services are net new.

More of those congestive heart failure patients who filled their prescriptions did not get readmitted to the hospital.