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Patient concerns in healthcare digitalisation: Rising inequalities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This means if a person visits multiple facilities, they must use different portals to access their health data. More workshops and … national marketing? In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, individual healthcare providers offer their own patient portals.

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Putting patients at the heart of digital healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The eHealth patient portal does more than just remind the patient of their next doctor’s appointment; it also facilitates digital consultations, reliably processes individual health data, and offers additional medical information. I can also contact and communicate with my doctors from home.

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TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari

Healthcare IT Today

Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well.

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HLTH 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

Source: [link] HLTH 2024 agenda and main tracks HLTH 2024 is a large-scale conference with a comprehensive agenda featuring numerous sessions, workshops, and keynotes. Digital Health and Telemedicine: Exploring the use of digital tools for remote patient monitoring, virtual care, and health data management.

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Patient Portals Improve Healthcare Outcomes. So, Why Don’t Patients Use Them?

Healthcare IT Today

Build Community Digital Literacy With patients who feel overwhelmed by or uncomfortable with technology, one option is to invest in digital literacy education programs or workshops, offering simple tutorials to enhance your patients’ comfort and confidence in using technology, and by extension your portal.

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ViVE 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

Potential Key Talking Points for the Vive Digital Health Event 2024: Industry Trends: Data-driven healthcare: Leveraging data analytics for personalized medicine, population health management, and clinical decision support. AI and machine learning: Applications in diagnostics, drug discovery, and robotic surgery.

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How many tries does it take to flip a physician?

Society for Participatory Medicine

I raised similar questions when I hosted a local workshop as a “patient activist” assisting the Choosing Wisely effort. As shown in this slide I made for a Choosing Wisely workshop, it has since become common to question many aspects of conventional wisdom in medicine. How many flips between Welby and House?