by Holly Meyer | Oct 11, 2023 | HIPAA, Patient Communication, Patient Outreach, Secure Messaging
Fifty-three phone calls per day — that’s the average for most healthcare providers. These calls typically take a minimum of two minutes, meaning practice staff spend nearly one-quarter of their workday on the phone with patients. Text messages, however, are sent...
by Holly Meyer | Feb 8, 2023 | Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach
Are you one of the 70 percent of Americans who take at least one medication daily? If so, then there’s a 50 percent chance you’re also one of the ones who don’t take it as prescribed. More than 131 million adults in the United States use prescription medication, and...
by Lisa Blue | Sep 28, 2022 | Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Population Health
More than six billion texts are sent every day in the United States. That amounts to about 180 million every month and 2.27 trillion each year. The number probably doesn’t seem so surprising, given that most Americans own a cell phone, including the 85 percent or so...
by Holly Meyer | Sep 7, 2022 | Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach, Population Health, Uncategorized
Being in the top ten percent often is seen as a good thing. For example, ten percent of the richest people in the United States own almost 70 percent of the country’s total wealth. If you’re a student in the top ten percent, your grade point average is higher...
by Holly Meyer | Aug 24, 2022 | Patient Engagement
August is National Immunizations Awareness month. Vaccinations have been a hot topic over the past year and a half. They’ve been around much longer than the COVID-19 virus, though. Vaccines have been utilized for more than a century to curb and sometimes even...