Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health partnered with patient engagement company Connexient to bring indoor GPS services to the health system's 17 hospitals.

Younger consumers, including the Gen Z and millennial generations, are more dissatisfied with the quality of traditional healthcare services than older generations, a survey published by Accenture found.

Some primary care physicians may lack adequate treatment information for women diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer.

Nevada contains the most adults who report not having a personal physician at 33.8 percent, according to a ranking from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Many patients don’t know where to start when it comes to advocating for themselves and demanding the care they deserve.

There’s a fundamental contradiction at the heart of today’s healthcare industry.

As the New England Patriots get ready to play the Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl Feb. 3, Boston Children's Hospital is challenging Children's Hospital Los Angeles to a touchdown dance-off, the Patriots' website reports.

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, both based in Boston, are offering cancer patients the option to use virtual reality to visualize their treatments, according to STAT.

CMS has launched the "What's Covered" app to let Original Medicare patients and caregivers see whether Medicare covers a medical item or service.

Although healthcare providers are increasingly considering telemedicine options such as chatbots, the jury is still out on whether patients trust these new modes of care delivery, according to a report from customer experience company UserTesting.

Boston Children's Hospital is partnering with Medumo, a patient navigation platform provider, to improve patient access and experience during their care journeys.

Two physicians at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital have developed an app called ePAL to help cancer patients manage their pain, ABC-affiliate TV station WCVB reports.

Val Verde Regional Medical Center in Del Rio, Texas, partnered with Allen Technologies to deploy an interactive patient engagement solution on smart TVs.

Although most people agree it's important to have health information on-hand, many acknowledge there are challenges to accessing their data in an emergency, according to a Quest Diagnostics survey.

A Kentucky entrepreneur launched JoePatient.com, a website that uses CMS data to help consumers navigate the complexities of hospital pricing and quality ratings on different procedures, the Courier-Journal reports.

Although hospitals have started complying with a Trump administration order to post list prices for all their services Jan. 1, patients have found the prices hard to decode and inconsistent, signaling a need for improvements to the data, The New York Times reports.

Many cancer patients lack professional support and guidance during treatment, according to a new report from Wamberg Genomic Advisors.

Physicians must abandon the mindset that patients who practice unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, are to blame for their illnesses or cancer, Monica Bhargava, MD, an Oakland, Calif.-based pulmonary and critical care physician, wrote in an op-ed published by The Washington Post.

After a federal judge in Texas ruled the ACA is unconstitutional in December, Texas physician Hussain Lalani, MD, wrote that taking away patients' access to healthcare is morally flawed.

Nurses at Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health Children's Hospital relied on a simple strategy to calm a young cancer patient during a medical procedure: singing, reports The Epoch Times.