by Providertech | Apr 6, 2021 | Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Population Health
Chronic disease can be regarded as a major and persistent epidemic of our time. Today, roughly 40 million people in the United States are restricted in their day-to-day activities due to one or more common chronic health conditions. The most widespread chronic...
by Lisa Blue | Mar 23, 2021 | Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Population Health
It’s been approximately three months since the first COVID-19 vaccine received emergency use authorization (EUA) in the United States. On December 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was available for most...
by Providertech | 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 Providertech | Feb 9, 2021 | Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Uncategorized
Concerns voiced by experts late in 2020 about a “twindemic” seemed to have dissipated as seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains lower than usual. This time last year, close to 100 times as many flu cases had been identified from nearly the same...
