digital patient experience

Patient and provider examine digital health metrics
By  Trevor Dermody 11:10 am March 11, 2024
Today, Wolters Kluwer Health announced a new suite of next-generation clinical support tools pairing point-of-care decision support, workflow optimization and patient-centered care resources.  The new suite includes UpToDate, UpToDate Lexidrug (formerly Lexicomp), UpToDate patient engagement (formerly Emmi) and UpToDate digital architect.  Wolters Kluwer released two new products: the UpToDate...
A medical visit
By  Laura Lovett 05:13 pm March 14, 2022
Doctor appointments only account for a small percentage of a patient's time. However, medical outcomes are often linked to social determinants of health. But understanding a patient holistically can be difficult for clinicians facing time constraints and data gaps. Technology has surfaced as a potential way to help fill in the gaps.  Today at a HISS22 symposium on the patient experience, Dr. ...
By  Laura Lovett 03:06 pm May 13, 2019
Miscommunication and misinterpretation have long plagued text and email messaging. But when it comes to healthcare communication the stakes are high. Balancing efficiency and empathy in text communications can be a difficult task for medical teams.  “There are many ways in which we communicate digitally,” Dr. Richard Frankel, of the Indiana University School of Medicine, said this morning during...
By  Laura Lovett 02:59 pm January 24, 2019
As one of the big players in New York, the pressure is on NYU Langone to innovate. That means often thinking outside the healthcare bubble and investigating how other industries use technology to bring the best experience to the end user, according to Caitlin Cronk, the associate director of digital planning and strategy at NYU Langone.   At HIMSS19, Cronk and her colleague Nader Mherabi, the...