by Lisa Blue | May 25, 2021 | Automation, Patient Access, Patient Communication, Population Health
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is already upon us, taking over a vast majority of tasks that were once performed by us humans alone. As a matter of fact, we already make use of this state-of-the-art tech innovation nearly every day when we talk...
by Lisa Blue | May 11, 2021 | Patient Access, Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Population Health, Uncategorized
As of the beginning of May, 105 million Americans (31.9 percent of the total population) are fully vaccinated, and 147 million United States residents (44.8 percent of the total population) have received at least one dose of one of the three approved COVID-19...
by Lisa Blue | Apr 14, 2021 | Patient Access, Patient Engagement, Population Health, Uncategorized
Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. Although the primary risk factor for lung cancer is...
by Lisa Blue | Mar 16, 2021 | Patient Access, Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Population Health
Interoperability has always been a somewhat controversial issue in healthcare. Most providers and healthcare systems do not seamlessly exchange patient data or do not have the ability to, requiring patients to be responsible for manually transferring their data from...
by Lisa Blue | Mar 2, 2021 | Patient Access, Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Population Health, Telehealth
Conducting population health management is challenging for most health care entities. Doing it during the COVID-19 pandemic makes it exponentially more difficult. Provider support of chronic care patients has been achieved via telehealth more over the past year than...
by Holly Meyer | Feb 24, 2021 | Patient Access, Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach
Since it was launched in 2017, Epic Systems’ App Market (formerly Epic App Orchard) has grown to include 411 apps from more than 500 participating organizations. According to the most recent numbers, The Epic app developer program consists of approximately 1,200 app...