Patient Portals and Medication Adherence
Patient Portals are becoming the cancer clinics “right arm” in supporting their efforts to regularly educate and communicate with their patients between clinic visits. With this new communication vehicle, there is an opportunity to improve medication adherence by communicating more regularly with patients and requesting that patients provide data back on when they take their […]
New Research on Patient Portals: Is Your EMR the Safest Choice?
There is a lot of news lately on the adoption of patient portals. And for good reason, the deadline for adopting and using a patient portal to meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements is 2014, which is quickly approaching. Patient portal adoption and active use is accelerating dramatically across the U.S., driven by Stage 2 […]
The Value of a Patient Portal: A Customer’s Perspective
Patient Engagement is not just a new “buzz word” in healthcare, but its here to stay. Healthcare providers do not need to look far to find examples. HITECH Meaningful Use, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Patient Centered Medical Home, and Commission on Cancer standards are proof that patient engagement will be required in the new care […]
Digital Technology and Brand Planning
Many individuals consider “digital” a channel when it’s not – it is however, a capability that all communicators should have. Just about everyone in the US uses some sort of digital communication, with internet penetration around 80% of the population. When you also consider that, worldwide, 34% of people are either under 14 or over […]
The Navigating Care Community
At Navigating Care, we believe that it takes a community of people to help support a cancer patient. Cancer is a scary disease. It’s overwhelming to the patient, and to their family and to their own community of friends and family who feel so helpless. That’s why we’ve built Navigating Care, to help support cancer […]
Patient Portals Help Deliver Patient Engagement
Patient Engagement is not just the new buzz word in healthcare, but it is here to stay. Healthcare providers do not need to look far to find examples. HITECH Meaningful Use, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Patient Centered Medical Home, and Commission on Cancer standards are proof that patient engagement will be required in the new […]
10 Tips to Marketing Your Patient Portal to Your Patients
Now that you have a patient portal, it’s time to start thinking about how to make your patients aware of this new service. Patients will want to use this new service, but many will look to you, their healthcare team, to guide their usage. Your promotion of the portal, telling your patients how important it is […]
Time Is Running Out – Find a Patient Portal now!
Patient engagement is quickly becoming a requirement, whether it’s for HIPAA, HITECH Meaningful Use, Medical Home, or Accountable Care Organizations; Clinics are struggling with decisions on how to meet all these requirements. Providers are juggling many balls while operating an oncology practice and face many decisions being made under duress. Among those decisions, providers should […]
What Patients Say About Their Navigating Care Patient Portal
There is a lot of talk about patient portals in the news. Practices need to provide patients with online access to their parts of their health records to meeting healthcare reform requirements. Now that practices are providing this service, we wanted to share what patients are saying about having access to a patient portal. From […]
Better Clinical Outcomes and Lower Costs Proven with Patient Engagement
It is universally accepted that we have an unsustainable and broken healthcare model. It’s also becoming more and more a priority to engage patients in the their care as a way to improve healthcare. New Rules Require Physicians To Provide Patient Engagement Many providers today are worried about what’s required for them tomorrow, that it’s […]