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Missed Appointments: A Hidden Cost for Physicians and Patients

HIT Consultant

Yet what the data reveals is that one of the most successful strategies for preventing missed appointments is to give patients an option that allows them to add appointments directly to their calendars with one click. As a software engineer by trade, Nilsson developed AddEvents primary add-to-calendar solution himself in 2012.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In addition, in 2012, UVA Health launched a remote patient monitoring program to improve patient compliance and clinical outcomes, and to reduce hospital readmissions, hospital length of stay and emergency department visits. "As an organization, we have set a dashboard for expected utilization.

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Rhythm Management Group Announces Acquisition of Equis Consulting Group

Healthcare IT Today

The company is widely-recognized for its strong customer relationships and patient satisfaction, having achieved a 96% customer retention rate. Founded in 2012, Equis Consulting Group provides clinical and consultative services for remote patient monitoring and management. For more information visit myrhythmnow.com.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs. Marketers of the new entity will refocus on patient satisfaction.

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How to Create Champions of Healthcare Compliance?? 

YouCompli

She advises doing shout-outs when a department has good audit results or positive patient satisfaction survey results in employee newsletter. From 2012-2016, he served on the Board of a non-profit organization serving the medically underserved in Colorado (ClinicNET).