by Holly Meyer | Jun 28, 2023 | HIPAA, Patient Communication, Patient Engagement, Patient Outreach
Once every two minutes and 43 seconds. No, that’s not how many times toddlers ask a question. It’s how often the average American reaches for his or her smartphone. Text messaging has become the preferred method of communication for many individuals, so much so that...
by Lisa Blue | Jun 9, 2021 | value-based care, Workflow Efficiency
Burnout was first described as a psychological syndrome in 1996 by Christina Maslach, Ph.D. in the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) Manuel. A condition that affects physicians in all specialties and practice settings, it’s defined in the International Classification of...
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 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 Lisa Blue | 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...
