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9 Major Patient Engagement Trends to Embrace in 2022

Health Care Success

While many businesses long for a return to pre-COVID normal, savvy healthcare organizations and health systems embrace virtual and digital services that champion a patient engagement future that exceeds expectations in our new reality. Success with “patient experience” is far deeper than just making patients happy.

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The Critical Shift in ASC EHR Adoption: Overcoming Barriers

HIT Consultant

The EHR is the best way to support the immediate and long-term trajectory of a patient’s health by allowing for more efficient information gathering and information analysis along the continuum of care, including preventive care, through medical incidents, rehabilitation and maintenance.

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A virtual speech therapy trailblazer offers a deep dive into this telehealth treatment

Healthcare It News

With focused speech therapy provided by a therapist who has specialized training and experience, the patient experiences faster results in a shorter timeframe. Conversely, during speech therapy conducted at a brick-and-mortar facility, the therapists treat all age groups and various conditions within the same day.

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Chatbots in Healthcare: A More Humanized, Patient-Oriented Approach

HIT Consultant

By providing individuals who have questions or concerns about their health with immediate access to medical insight and guidance, chatbots can help efficiently clerk and triage patients through preliminary, automated queries and notation which doctors can then easily access and reference.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices.

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Health Populi

The AI part of “SMAQ” is one of the tools the health care industry will increasingly use to personalize, customize, and “immediate-ize” health care across the continuum, from wellness and fitness to acute care and rehabilitation.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

The fourth graphic (labeled Figure 8) illustrates the percent of consumers likely to access new care options outside of bricks-and-mortar doctors’ offices if these services were lower cost: 56% of people would use telehealth via smartphone for a dermatologist to examine a skin problem.