How Addressing Digital Literacy Assists Healthcare Providers in Using Text Messaging to Reach Senior and Minority Populations
There are multiple steps providers can take to improve the digital health literacy of their patients, thereby ensuring each one understands the messaging and is able to utilize it.
How to Use Automated Text Messaging to Help Patients Manage Their Diabetes
Routinely reaching out to patients, especially those with a chronic illness such as diabetes, can play a crucial part in facilitating their access to care.
The Importance of Keeping Kids Up-to-date on Routine Vaccines
It’s important for pediatricians and other healthcare providers to develop a detailed communication plan that will engage their young patients and increase vaccination compliance rates.
5 Strategies Providers Should Employ to Overcome Patient Engagement Obstacles
The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care has precipitated a focus on patient engagement. A majority of healthcare providers are developing and implementing strategies and tools to achieve higher levels of engagement to not only boost their bottom line and...
Top Tips for Patients Picking a New Primary Care Provider
For most Americans, healthcare is seen as a basic service to which every resident should have access. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Why? Because of barriers such as lack of health insurance, transportation issues, language differences and low income. Some...
Helping Patients Make Healthy Decisions: Overcoming 5 Behavioral Economics Problems Through Automated Technology
Uncover five common behavioral economic problems and solutions for helping patients make healthy decisions.
Benefits, Best Practices and HIPAA Rules for Secure Text Messaging in Healthcare
Learn how to leverage SMS for patient engagement. Cut down calls, simplify scheduling, minimize no-shows, and navigate HIPAA best practices.
Reframing the eTest Discussion in Post-COVID-19
Electronic test results can be used far beyond COVID-19. Read on for 10 conditions that can benefit and advantages of the CareTest solution.
Staffing Shortages, Less Direct Patient Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Factors in Nurse Burnout
Staffing Shortages, Less Direct Patient Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Factors in Nurse Burnout When you ask children these days what they want to be when they grow up, many say an astronaut, firefighter or teacher. The most popular answer used to be doctor or...
How Digital Tools Can Be Used to Promote Treatment for Mental Health
It’s something a lot of individuals don’t like to discuss with others, yet it’s an issue with which many Americans struggle. It’s a problem that can be easily addressed but for which most people don’t seek treatment. We’re talking about mental illness. An estimated...
The Great Resignation, COVID-19 and Physician Burnout
Sometimes, a high number is a good thing. Take, for example, a test score or an IQ. Other times, it can spell trouble. A prime example of this is the United States’ current consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation. The CPI is at its highest level in almost...
Increasing Patient Satisfaction Through One Question
Uncover 6 ways patient feedback is essential, why a minimal approach is critical and the one question that increases patient satisfaction.
