Patient Experience

Cleveland Clinic. The OB-GYN & Women’s Health Institute at the hospital houses centers spanning conditions like menstrual disorders, fertility issues and gynecologic infectious diseases. Cleveland Clinic’s Breast Center garnered a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers…

The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati). The Christ Hospital Birthing Center opened more than 120 years ago and Women’s Choice Award has named The Christ Hospital a best hospital for patient experience in obstetrics for the past three years. The hospital’s Women’s…

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ranked No. 15 on U.S. News & World Report’s top 50 hospitals in the nation for gynecology for 2016-17. Nearly 7,000 women deliver babies at the hospital each year, more than any…

Recently my wife required a specialty consult. The neurology department at the academic institution to which she had been referred called the following morning.

The Smart Clinic patient education mobile application was recently introduced at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' "Launch Pad: Pathways to Cancer InnoVAtion" event in Washington, D.C. The event is supported by the White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative.

Patients play an integral role in their own care, and health systems and even CMS are working to get patients more engaged in their care plans. However, there are some steps patients can take on their own that could lead…

Since launching successful partnerships with Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health in January and the Boston-based startup Circulation in September, Uber has hired an outreach team to work with healthcare providers to accommodate the growing demand for health-based services, according to MobiHealthNews.

Good business is based on simple economics: a successful balance of supply and demand. Consumers want or need a good or service, and businesses provide those goods or services in a way that satisfies consumers and keeps them coming back…

Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp. launched a member rewards program to help customers shop around for medical services and encourage them to make lower-cost decisions when choosing healthcare providers.

The healthcare industry is not meeting the needs of patients with multiple chronic conditions, according to a brief issued by the Commonwealth Fund Dec. 9.