Dr. Caroline Yang

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By  Dr. Caroline Yang 11:24 am March 28, 2023
As many other industries have gone digital, consumers have come to expect the same degree of convenience and personalization in healthcare. However, improving the patient experience is still not always easy. In a panel on Monday at the ViVE 2023 Healthcare Conference in Nashville, industry leaders discussed how digital health innovation can best enable patients to navigate the care journey with...
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By  Dr. Caroline Yang 09:17 am March 18, 2022
Social media has grown rapidly over the past couple of decades, with some of the biggest players including Facebook, formed in 2004, and Twitter, started in 2006. In just the past 12 months, the number of active social media users has grown by over 400 million, and Twitter alone reaches 211 million active users daily. This all translates to volumes of data that could be leveraged to draw...
Hospital at home
By  Dr. Caroline Yang 03:26 pm March 16, 2022
Over the past few years, there has been a paradigm shift regarding how acute care can be delivered. The pandemic has accelerated the growth of nontraditional models of care, including acute, post-acute and ambulatory home-based care. In the traditional model, patients come to the site of care, but in a hospital at home setting, clinical services are brought to the patient’s home. Despite industry...
Panel at HIMSS22
By  Dr. Caroline Yang 09:29 am March 16, 2022
ORLANDO, Fla. – The pandemic has accelerated a lot of innovation in the digital space, in large part because it forced patients and providers to engage virtually, both synchronously and asynchronously, according to panelists at HIMSS State of Healthcare 2022. In just two years, we have seen a rapid growth of virtual visits, remote patient monitoring, texting applications and other digital...