Patient Engagement & Communications

Keith Algozzine is co-founder and CEO of 

. A board-certified Physician Assistant, he was formerly the Chief PA of Emergency Medicine for St. Mary’s Hospital in Troy, NY, where he witnessed firsthand the challenges of the modern healthcare system. Keith was also part of the national ER startup management team for Pegasus Emergency Medicine. He represents UCM Digital Health on the American Telemedicine Association Accreditation Advisory Board and serves as an advisor to the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committees dealing with telemedicine considerations for urgent and emergency care.

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As patient volumes grow, digital front doors can be a boon to your practice.

6 Benefits of digital front doors

Dr. Walt Hadikin is the Director of Clinical Communications at 

, the #1 mobile medical reference app among US physicians. He currently oversees all clinical communications for the company (mobile news, government and specialty society relationships, etc). Dr. Hadikin is also a physician editor trained in both family medicine and clinical pharmacy, with extensive experience in digital medical communications.

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One significant challenge facing physicians is that the most prominent symptoms of long COVID have been traditionally among the most challenging to treat.

3 Things physicians should consider when treating long Covid

, a virtual care provider focused on blood pressure management to lower patients’ risk for heart attack, stroke and kidney failure.

Clinicians and their care teams lack the time and resources to manage chronic diseases optimally.

Close partnerships between primary and virtual care providers needed to deliver optimal chronic disease care

Megan Marchal,PharmD, is the director of specialty pharmacy strategy at CoverMyMeds, where she is responsible for continuous innovation of the company’s specialty pharmacy solutions. Her work is especially focused on providing specialty pharmacies and other members of the care team with full transparency into the journey patients take to access and adhere to complex therapies. Megan also provides a clinical perspective to initiatives to ensure they align with specialty pharmacy needs, such as resolving workflow barriers and providing innovative processes to expedite turnaround time of specialty medicine dispensing. Megan brings more than a decade of experience working in the pharmacy space, including retail, specialty and outpatient healthcare system settings.

Maintaining treatment for patients with chronic conditions during a crisis requires healthcare technology that keeps everyone connected.

Crisis-proofing specialty therapies: Sophia’s journey

Dhiren Patel is the Senior Vice President of Commercial at Pack Health, a Quest Diagnostics company. In this role, he oversees the organization’s medical affairs, marketing and commercial initiatives focused on empowering health plans, employers and life science organizations to provide virtual coaching services for individuals with complex chronic diseases. In addition to having a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Patel is a Certified Diabetes Educator.

A healthful diet can help people diagnosed with chronic conditions manage their diseases and prevent complications.

Food security is the missing link in managing chronic conditions

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