CHICAGO — During the Patient Engagement Forum at HIMSS Global Conference on Monday, Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health, highlighted how digital officers can influence healthcare and the importance of listening, respecting and engaging with patients to improve results for all stakeholders.
"Listen to what your consumers want, what your...
Demand for mental health services has soared since the COVID-19 pandemic. In the UK alone an estimated 1.6 million people are awaiting treatment, while a further eight million who do not qualify for NHS help are experiencing day-to-day challenges.
Increasingly digital therapeutics (DTx) are being considered as an option to fill the gaps in healthcare provision. They have the potential to be woven...
This morning patient engagement and care coordination company SCI Solutions announced that it has acquired DatStat, a company that specializes in digital health tools and patient engagement, for an undisclosed sum. Following this acquisition, the company’s combined headquarters will be in Seattle Washington.
“In our consumer-driven health model, provider organizations need to fundamentally...
A software platform developed at Mount Sinai comprising of a mobile app for patients and a decision support dashboard for practitioners can improve inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients’ quality of care, according to clinical data recently presented at the Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Conference.
By implementing tools that allow care teams to monitor symptoms and more conveniently...
Phoenix, Arizona-based Orb Health, which makes a care coordination platform for population health management, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding in a round led by Mt Vernon Investments, with participation from some returning seed investors including Green Park & Golf. The funding will be used to further Orb’s partnership growth with health systems and physician-owned practices....
Cincinnati, Ohio-based PatientPoint, maker of engagement platforms for providers and patients, has introduced a new physician-facing app designed to enhance doctor performance and the patient-physician interaction.
The app, PatientPoint 360, pulls together the company’s earlier product offerings: PatientPoint Access, which is a physician medical news digital screen that keep doctors on top of the...
This week in Santa Clara marked the 10th anniversary for Health 2.0, a health tech conference held every year in Silicon Valley to explore the progress being made in the digital health space and the challenges that remain. MobiHealthNews was onsite all four days of the conference and below we’ve rounded up our coverage of the event, plus quite a few presentations and bits of news that didn’t make...
Brecksville, Ohio-based healthcare services company MedData (not to be confused with Medidata) has acquired Columbus, Ohio-based patient engagement company Duet Health.
“This is a game changer for our clients,” MedData CEO Ann Barnes said in a statement. “This acquisition immediately gives hospitals and providers access to some of the best tools available and a technology platform that will...
A new report from Chilmark Research shows that the state of affairs in patient engagement is best summed up by the overused paraphrase of the William Gibson quote: The future is here, it's just not very widely distributed.
After speaking to about a dozen healthcare vendors and their customers, report author Naveen Rao found that for any given patient engagement technology, outside of the most...
