Confessions of a Health IT Professional and His Patient Portal (These views...
Guilty as charged! I work in an environment that fosters the utilization of health IT for better care and health outcomes, yet I only recently logged into my own patient portal. Let me take you on a...
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I have recently found myself speaking to interns and first year medical students about what patient engagement is and why it matters. These future generations of policy makers and healthcare stewards...
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As we become immersed in the sights and sounds of the holiday season, there is a largely invisible group of people struggling to balance its daily responsibilities with the added stress of the holidays...
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by Nilesh Chandra, member, HIMSS Patient-Generated Health Data Task Force, and Adam Russman Advances in technology offer healthcare payers and providers a continuous stream of data on actual behavior,...
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By: Deborah Wells, MS, CPHIMS, Senior Strategy Consultant, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Co-chair HIMSS Connected Patient Community, and member of HIMSS Patient-Generated Health Data Task...
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