A lot of physicians are having problems meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2, particularly the requirement which calls for 5% of patients to view/download/or transmit their online, personal health information. According to CMS and ONC, only 1 percent of eligible providers...
There has been lots of talk about Health IT's "central role" in getting patients more engaged in their own health care. The National eHealth Collaborative, now a part of HIMSS, even went so far as to propose a patient engagement framework built entirely around...
Have you noticed all the articles in the health care press lately touting health information technologies’ ability to increase patient medication adherence? Smart phone-based apps, Smart pill bottles and Patient Portals are all about trying to get patients to do...
I hate saying I told you so. But to quote myself…"patient engagement is a physician-patient communications challenge and not an HIT (Health Information Technology) challenge." Just take a look at the Mayo Clinic’s patient portal experience which was discussed at a...
There is no app for engaging patients in their own health care absent a strong doctor-patient relationship. Physicians, hospitals and other providers are being misled by industry pundits claiming that more health information technology (as in EMRs, PHRs, Smart Phone...