Doctronic reports technology empowers patients through home health data, enhancing doctor-patient communication and personalizing treatment plans.
A team of Dutch scientists has conducted a review of published studies that looked at how electronic communication between doctors and patients -- like email or messaging through a patient-facing EHR ...
Communicating to patients that they need to come to their annual checkup is important for eye doctors to convey to help treat their patients, says Ariana Levin, MD. Glaucoma is a disease that affects ...
Doctors who've faced the disease themselves share candid lessons about empathy, medical bias, and the humanity of care. When physicians become cancer patients, they describe a profound shift in how ...
Communication is an underappreciated skill, particularly in medicine. While our world has become increasingly interconnected thanks to the ever-growing number of new devices, apps and infrastructure, ...
Recently, a long-standing patient came in for her routine office follow-up appointment for management of hypertension and arthritis. After a warm greeting, she told me there was a matter she needed to ...
New capabilities provide patients with 24/7 access to front office AI agents to improve patient engagement, simplify scheduling, and ease administrative burden for practices athenahealth today ...
Presence of a live video interpreter during consultations may help improve some aspects of communication between doctors and patients with deafness.
NEW ORLEANS — Have you ever been too embarrassed to tell your doctor about your symptom or maybe a medication side effect? Maybe you feel like the doctor has no bedside manners, so you don't go to the ...
In recent years, sporadic medical disagreements have arisen. Inadequate communication between the medical team and patients, together with their families, accounts for around one-third of medical ...
As a health policy professional who has spent nearly two decades working in health care quality measurement—much of it at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private payers—I (Ma) ...
After multiple surgeries and months of recovery, Dr Kathryn Fox — Starts at 60’s resident doctor — reflects on what she learned when she found herself on the other side of the hospital curtain, ...