Patient Engagement

A clinical team at Asan Medical Center in a virtual call with a patient overseas
By Adam Ang 06:42 pm February 18, 2025
The newly launched platform integrates registration, test data sharing, pre-consultation, and remote treatments.
Mount Sinai Health System
By Bill Siwicki 11:50 am February 14, 2025
As chief digital information officer, Lisa Stump says she's working to integrate an array of new technologies to enable value creation and drive growth, all while executing on the technology imperatives of a five-year strategic plan.
stethoscope on iPad
By Bill Siwicki 11:19 am February 14, 2025
A tour of a lab creating digital health tech to aid brain health – everything from robots to wearables and IOT devices to virtual reality and AI to adaptive robotic pets. Leading the tour: Casey Bennett, health informatics program chair at DePaul University.
Doctors and informatics leaders speak at a table
By Andrea Fox 11:23 am February 12, 2025
More providers are finding artificial intelligence can reduce clinician burnout and lower recruiting costs. Meanwhile, tech vendors on the frontier of agentic AI innovation are looking to healthcare as a first use case.
Doctor with long hair in a ponytail sits and works on a laptop
By Andrea Fox 10:52 am February 10, 2025
Initial findings from a three-year analysis from athenahealth suggest the idea that providers' use of digital patient outreach tools increase documentation burdens is a misconception.
Woman holds a plastic delivery of prescription produce for an older man
By Andrea Fox 10:46 am February 07, 2025
Tufts University, Kaiser Permanente and other healthcare organizations have launched the National Food is Medicine Network of Excellence to share best practices and measure the health outcomes and costs of produce prescription programs.
Ed Mitchell of Advocate Health on patient experience
By Bill Siwicki 12:27 pm February 06, 2025
Ed Mitchell, director, strategic partnerships at Advocate Health, says simplifying technology choices and reducing technical debt can unlock opportunities to enhance patient engagement with improved experience design strategies.
clinical researchers looking at data on a screen
By Andrea Fox 11:57 am February 03, 2025
Mayo Clinic's decentralized trials are investigating how to best integrate the clinical trial experience into a patient’s life and routine care, say researchers ahead of their HIMSS25 presentation.
Stethoscope on tablet
By Susan Morse 10:47 am February 03, 2025
Mass personalization at scale can be done through technology, says Mudit Garg, CEO and cofounder of Qventus.  
Senior consults with physician via telehealth with smartphone
By Nathan Eddy 10:57 am January 30, 2025
Most adults aged 50 to 80 in the United States are now using digital health technologies (DHTs), with patient portals leading adoption rates, according to a