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Empowering Patients with Mainstream Telehealth Solutions

Telehealth is different from telemedicine because it refers to a broader scope of remote healthcare services than telemedicine. While telemedicine refers specifically to remote clinical services, telehealth can refer to remote non-clinical services, such as provider training, administrative meetings, and continuing medical education, in addition to clinical services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) […]

Year in Review – Top 10 Healthcare Guides & Webinars of 2015

  We have compiled a list of the top 10 healthcare content assets of 2015. If you haven’t downloaded these valuable information assets you may want to do it now. Check them out below:   #10. Guide – 7 Features of a Market-Driven Patient Portal As healthcare reform and transformation advances, providers will seek new […]

Communicating with Caregivers via a Self Service Symptom Checker

Cindy thought she had another Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). She remembered that when she suffered the same symptoms a year ago, she called the nurse triage service. She was treated over the phone, but it was embarrassing to talk about her symptoms at work and she had to wait a while for the nurse. Today […]

Empowering Patients: Engaging Beyond the Traditional Care Setting

Consumerism is changing how we interact with our care providers. Connecting patients more closely to care providers is especially important after discharge from a facility. My colleague Melody Smith Jones @melsmithjones shared an e-Patient petition to the ONC in her whitepaper Patient 360: The Complete View of Patient Engagement that stated “Nothing would result in […]

How Kaiser Permanente Serves More Patients With Less Resources

Healthcare is undergoing a seismic change in the way traditional institutions think about healthcare delivery. From consumer-driven loyalty programs and social listening to telehealth and wellness programs, disruptive technologies are leading the transformation. Telehealth, once reserved for the chronically ill, is now being used to drive increased revenue by creating services that scale beyond traditional […]

Self-Service Symptom Portal – Accurate. Convenient. Empowering.

As a millennial, I rely on Google for a lot of things. In fact, on a daily basis I bet I use Google an average of five times. Whether I am getting directions, looking up a phone number or just searching for an answer to a random question – Google allows me to be self-sufficient. […]

Webinar: A Look Inside A Leading Telehealth Provider

Healthcare is undergoing a seismic change in the way organizations think about healthcare delivery, and telehealth is one of the movements leading this evolution. Healthcare organizations are leveraging innovative technologies to: Reduce patient visits and lower healthcare costs Empower patients through self-treatment Deliver alternate methods of patient/provider communication Manage symptoms and medical conditions for the […]