Patient Care

What if both caring and coding could work together synergistically?

You truly have to walk a mile in a patient’s shoes to find out the true barriers to improving their well-being.

Physicians constrained when payers put cost above care.

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The conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play that can affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes.

In addition to helping patients better manage chronic, difficult-to-treat conditions, mindfulness could help physicians manage job stress and burnout.

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By improving exam room design and workflow data and equipment, medical practices can facilitate a better experience for both patients and caregivers.

Showing empathy improves patient satisfaction, but not every doctor is naturally good at expressing feelings to patients.

Health equity metrics are increasingly required in value-based care.

How primary care physicians can help

It takes just one problem or inconvenience to affect the patient’s experience at your practice.

For the first time, clinicians have been able to get a “behind the scenes look” into their patient’s environment during telehealth visits.

For 15 years, I unquestioningly followed my organization’s standard process for patient flow. Not anymore.

As we continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic and its long-term consequences, it is more important than ever for providers to build trust with patients.

Is the coding taking priority over the caring?

Thanks to being faster, on-demand, and more customizable, decentralized clinical trials are here to stay.

The right communication strategy can keep you from losing a patient.

One woman's story illustrates the importance of patient care, even when you're burned out.

A key aspect of medical education is understanding the perspective of the patient being treated.

Digitizing patient health data was supposed to make it usable for public and population health research. So far, that hasn’t happened.

As providers face more conditions and treatments with an underlying genomic component it’s difficult to stay abreast of all the rapid advances.

Patients are first and always a person.

Personalization is an expected standard for today’s patients.

For the more than 21 million children living with chronic conditions, adherence to these types of treatment plans and medication regimens is an indelible daily part of their young lives.