Participation in a team-based online game designed to educate patients about diabetes care can help improve blood glucose control, suggests research published in the journal Diabetes Care.
Patient Experience
Healthcare, by nature, is very reactive. A patient may experience a symptom, a malady, or an accident, and the care team responds appropriately.
At the end of the day, there are fewer things that are more personal - and more important - than your health. But, the ongoing healthcare debate in Washington continues to distance itself from, what should be, the main goal:…
Millennials are quickly becoming the healthcare industry’s largest customers and they are choosing their providers unlike any generation before.
As an industry, we agree that patients are becoming increasingly attentive healthcare consumers. They shoulder more and more financial responsibility for rising healthcare costs, and will continue to drive wide-ranging demands on the healthcare ecosystem around value, access, personalization and…
Advertisement
Healthcare organizations are investing in technology and capabilities to help their care teams connect with, care for and retain patients in the new outcomes-based landscape.
A review of 64 studies published in Pediatrics found up to 38 percent of parents and caregivers did not know their child's correct medication dose after leaving the hospital, Reuters reports.
SCI Solutions, a provider of patient care management technology, created a 10-point checklist for healthcare providers to make sure patients are getting the right care at the right time.
A study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, examines patient experiences with regard to accessing their provider's visit notes.
The way consumers are shopping for healthcare is changing rapidly, yet some fundamentals have stayed the same.