Patient Experience

A clinical trial at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System is testing whether brighter lights in cancer patients' rooms during the morning can boost their mood and help them sleep through the night, The Wall Street Journal reports.

North Scottsdale (Ariz.) Pediatrics redesigned its operations to include more technology-friendly scheduling tools and improve experience for the incoming generation of millennial parents, according to athenaInsight.

The majority of patients who access their medical record online use it to view test results, according to an ONC data brief released this month.

U.S. News & World Report teamed up with patient feedback management solutions provider Binary Fountain to publish patient experience ratings on a number of its physician profile pages.

A team of physicians at Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center deployed an iPad app intervention to improve rates of colorectal cancer screenings across the health system.

Twenty-six percent of patients admitted to secretly recording their clinicians or knowing someone who did, according to a survey published in BMJ Open.

In 2015, NYU Winthrop Hospital set out to improve organizational efficiency.

Family physicians can avoid life-threatening consequences of missed diagnoses and treatment opportunities by working to ask patients about their social challenges, argues Gary LeRoy, MD, American Academy of Family Physicians board of directors member, in an AAFP blog post.

Online health and wellness information resource WebMD launched a revamped version of its Symptom Checker, which features three times the number of symptoms and potential conditions for patients than the previous version.

Patients who give physicians negative reviews online do not give similar responses in formal patient satisfaction surveys, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. However, when compared with colleagues who do not have negative reviews, physicians score lower…