Search Tag: Patient
The Patient Is the DATA
2023 28 Feb
With the advent of digital technology in healthcare, data has become an essential component of modern healthcare delivery. The availability of patient data is crucial for providing quality care, managing patient privacy and safety, and promoting patient engagement. However, data silos and the lack of interoperability between healthcare systems have... Read more
NGPX 2020 : Next Generation Patient Experience Annual Conference
2020 05 Nov
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Consumerism in Healthcare – Current Status, Benefits and Challenges
2020 12 Nov
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed healthcare to move towards consumerism. This change is being driven by patients who are quickly turning into consumers. Where will this trend lead? Is it time for hospitals and consumers to work together to utilise digital technology in healthcare and to improve healthcare access across all groups of society? How... Read more
Informatics Tools Demystify Radiology Reports For Patients
2020 22 Jan
As more patients become engaged in their care, they require medical communication like radiology reports to be more understandable. According to Tessa S. Cook, assistant professor of radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, imaging informatics could contribute to facilitating patient-radiologist... Read more
5 Practices to Improve Doctor-Patient Relationships
2020 13 Jan
A new paper published by researchers from Stanford highlights five practices that could play a critical role in implementing and achieving more meaningful interactions with patients. The paper, published in JAMA, addresses the need to repair doctor-patient relationships as they exist today. It is based on research conducted with Presence, an interdisciplinary... Read more
Cybersecurity: Key Best Practices for Protecting Health Data
2019 19 Nov
With digital technology now widely used in healthcare, from doctor appointment scheduling apps to telehealth systems, risks of patient data being hacked have increased immensely. As such, the concept of "patient wellbeing" has evolved to include data privacy and protection. This change is not surprising considering that, given recent high-profile cyberattacks –notably... Read more
Cutting Low-Yield Imaging Through Collaboration
2019 30 Oct
Radiology care means ensuring optimal use of imaging for diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Needless to say, radiologists play an important role in helping referring physicians avoid ordering imaging tests that provide not much diagnostic value – and unnecessarily expose patients to radiation. That's certainly the main reason behind the American... Read more
Optimising Healthcare Data for Improved Patient Care
2019 16 Oct
Harnessing the power of healthcare data is key to developing innovative solutions that lead to better patient care. At Medtronic , two key approaches enable the medical device company to utilise data on people's health to help hospitals become more efficient and effective in their delivery of care. The first one entails developing devices that... Read more
Consumer Tech Promotes Patient Engagement
2019 26 Aug
Summary: How can healthcare leverage mHealth and the parallel movement towards consumerism to better patient engagement? In 2012, my passion for healthcare deepened when my wife, Janet, was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. She received wonderful care from her healthcare providers, but Janet and I often felt that we were left to make... Read more
‘The Death of Cancer’ - The Patient Perspective
2019 26 Aug
Summary: Cancer affects everybody's life at some point. ‘The Death of Cancer,' written by one of oncology's leading figures, Dr Vincent T. DeVita, documents his own journey for the cure. Dr Peter Kapitein gives his personal review on the book. In 2005 I was diagnosed with lymph gland cancer and became interested in the medical industrial... Read more