While adopting new technology is obviously a big part of healthcare innovation teams’ work, there are plenty of worthwhile initiatives that don’t involve advanced technologies, pointed out Dan Shoenthal, chief innovation officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Many consumers leave their provider because of navigation problems, while many leave their insurer because of experience issues, a new Accenture report found.
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
Many people don't take well to the term “healthcare consumer,” or have expressed that they prefer to be referred to as a patient rather than a consumer. But in the U.S., it’s a plain fact that people have choices when it comes to their healthcare. In this piece, three health system executives give their take on why “patient” and “consumer” are often one in the same — and why hospitals need to be mindful of this.
During a recent panel, three health system executives shared some of the most important lessons they’ve learned from the digital initiatives they’ve worked on in the past couple years. Some of their nuggets of wisdom included starting with a problem instead of a solution and being sure not to use financial ROI as the only metric for success.
Innovaccer acquired Cured, a healthcare digital marketing and CRM platform. With the deal, Innovaccer gains more than 20 customers to add to its current portfolio of clients. Innovaccer CEO Abhinav Shashank said the main goal of the acquisition was to help his company become a leader in patient experience technology.
Despite the challenges that healthcare providers face and declining patient experience scores, several effective strategies can enhance their work to improve the patient experience and sufficiently satisfy expectations for care.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Experts have predicted that 2024 will be an eventful year for hospital M&A activity. As the industry prepares for another big year, there are a few things that health system leaders involved in these deals should keep in mind to make the process as smooth as possible, according to DexCare CEO Derek Streat.
Regulators and experts consider patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as the gold standard when assessing a patient’s subjective treatment experience. As such, ePROs can be the key to product differentiation for sponsors seeking to highlight their product’s ease of administration, tolerability, or compatibility in combination with other components of a treatment regimen.
A webinar on December 5 will spotlight expert panelists from Praia Health and Providence, interviewed by AVIA, to discuss the benefits of adopting a hyperpersonal care model for patients, challenges that health systems face providing this care, and how they can overcome them.
Providing accessible healthcare experiences is simply a must, whether to stabilize digital care as a revenue channel or to simply do right by the patients who need it. So, if digital accessibility is a driver of differentiation and patient satisfaction, and it’s mandated by law, why are so many providers failing to deliver in this area?
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
One health system that initiated a journey mapping process for breast health services focused on connecting patients with a breast surgeon within 48 hours. But for the patient, that’s not 48 hours. That’s 10,000 moments of terror, she told them. Understanding this, the health system redesigned how it communicated with patients.
Creating a successful primary data marketing campaign relies on asking the right questions, keeping the end user in mind, proper analysis and a long-term plan for its use.
Recent regulations from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have, respectively, focused on prohibiting information blocking and increasing price transparency. Together, these two regulations have put a third issue into the spotlight as well: Reducing the complexity of clinical terminology. If organizations present […]
Healthcare providers should deliver care to patients in all-inclusive models that focus on treatments rather than squeezing profits. In my opinion, charging a $50 convenience fee for a flu shot I could have received for free at CVS or Walgreens is unacceptable
New technologies thoughtfully implemented help providers reallocate time and deliver new value by aligning efforts with provider goals to enhance the experience for patients. Leveraging these new digital solutions allows clinicians to streamline lower-priority and non-clinical tasks, so they’re able to focus on bedside patient care.