Patient Experience

Adults who search for health information on the internet before visiting the hospital say it improves communication with their physician, according to a study published in The Medical Journal of Australia.

Clinicians at Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital celebrated three-year-old Hadley Gray's last day of chemotherapy treatment with a hospital tradition: singing the "no more chemo" song, according to ABC News. 

The rap artist Drake made a special visit to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Aug. 20 to surprise an 11-year-old patient at the hospital, reports CBS News.

Healthy Interactions joined forces with Merck to release a digital platform and mobile application in the U.S. that aims to enhance communications between diabetes patients and educators.

Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, N.Y., is investing $500,000 in Playback Health, a startup building a multimedia patient engagement tool, as part of a $1.25 million seed-round financing effort to fund software that improves physician-patient communications.

A team of researchers from universities and hospitals across the East Coast examined why Instant Blood Pressure — a top-selling smartphone app that claims to estimate blood pressure — gets high user ratings in the iTunes app store, despite often…

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger and drugmaker Merck unveiled two new tools for patients and caregivers Aug. 15.

Police confirmed a man died after jumping from the fifth floor of Syracuse, N.Y.-based Crouse Hospital Aug. 13, according to syracuse.com.

Dignity Health and UC San Francisco Health, both based in San Francisco, plan to merge their digital engagement platforms to improve the patient experience, the health systems recently announced.

A car crashed into a wall at Inova Alexandria (Va.) Hospital Aug. 11, injuring the driver of the vehicle, according to The Washington Post.