Category: Patient Engagement

Both technology and culture are keys to successful patient engagement, note industry experts Robust patient engagement could spell the difference between bankruptcy and financial stability. That may seem like an extreme assessment of today’s healthcare environment, but as Bob Dylan once said, “The times they are a-changin’.” read more …read more    

As the expression goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. To that end, although you can get patients to sample an eHealth solution, getting them to continue its use and to use it in a meaningful way is a more significant challenge, according to one practitioner. read more…

Virginia Mason is again rated as one of the safest hospitals in the U.S by The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization using the collective leverage of large purchasers of health care to drive improvements in safety, quality and affordability. …read more    

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the ECRI Institute are partnering in a pilot project to promote patient safety and quality care through the reduction of health IT risk, and enhancing health IT innovation. The project, the Partnership for Promoting Health IT Patient Safety, will create a national framework to proactively identify and…

To date, 25% of all GP practices in the region are using Datix for incidents and complaints management …read more    

In a new report, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) outlines how policymakers can leverage health information technology to support patient engagement. In a new report, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) outlines how policymakers can leverage health information technology to support patient engagement. The NCQA conducted informant interviews and directed consumer focus…

HIMSS, the mHealth Summit, and the Continua Alliance are connecting their names to a new group, the Personal Connected Health Alliance, focused on representing the consumer voice in personal connected health. HIMSS, the mHealth Summit, and the Continua Alliance are connecting their names to a new group, the Personal Connected Health Alliance, focused on representing…

While data integrity failures within health IT systems only ranked fourth on the ECRI Institute’s list of top healthcare technology hazards published last fall, when it comes to patient safety concerns, they rank No. 1. read more …read more    

Jan Oldenburg is a leading authority on patient engagement, having edited a book for HIMSS on the subject and worked on developing digital engagement systems for Kaiser and Aetna. She talks about patient engagement in community health in part 1 of this two-part Q&A. To say Jan Oldenburg has written the book on patient engagement…

The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization is calling for collaboration on patient safety to create a “a non-punitive learning environment” to bring about improvement. read more …read more