Patient Engagement & Communications

Psychiatrist Richard Miller, MD, of Elwyn Adult Behavioral Health in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, discusses how to talk to patients about health information they get from social media.

Practices have tools at their disposal that can help alleviate some of the problems that women face with health care affordability and access.

For practices, care gaps translate to lost volume and revenue as well as the potential for their patients to experience preventable diseases and worsening health.

The verdict is in for how practice's feel about their payers, and it isn't good.

These are the real reasons consumers prefer telehealth, and they might surprise you.

Evidence shows that patients who feel they are not heard or respected by their doctors experience poorer outcomes.

It is necessary to have metrics for gauging the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.

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This is not a time to be defensive or be oft-putting. Show the patient that you respect their right to make decisions about their care. Avoid being defensive or dismissive.

Actionable patient data lives in your digital engagement tools — use it!

A look at how communication can repair the divide between physician and patient.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused many patients to lose trust in the health care system.

Providing patients a positive experience, especially toward the end of the doctor-patient encounter, can pay dividends.

Patient engagement should go beyond just administrative work and scheduling appointments.

A highly effective and efficient way to engage with patients in danger of missing their recommended preventive services is text messaging.

When patients fail to understand or follow a physician’s advice, it can lead to frustration for the physician, an increased workload due to the need to address non-adherence, or the risk of a medical error.

With search engines and artificial intelligence tools, it may be incredibly easy to search for “how” to do something, but it’s often the “why,” “where,” and “when” that elude us when first starting a new discipline.

This assessment identified four core areas that generated underwhelming scores.

Improving patient health through engagement can help reduce burnout

Patients are consumers first, and medical groups should be prepared to meet consumers wherever – and whenever – they need care.

Medical practices can choose from a wide array of tools to enable communication with patients from diverse backgrounds

What delights patients and what leaves them wanting more?

Communication is the key to ensuring health and wellness don’t get lost in transition.

We’ve made little progress on health equity because we haven’t been able to frame the issue around business cases.