Elevating Your Approach to Patient Communications

The healthcare industry’s current struggles to reduce costs, improve patient outcomes, and increase access to information are fundamentally transforming the delivery of health services. To help understand how hospitals and health systems are thinking about modernizing their IT and network infrastructure to support digital transformation, HIMSS Media and Juniper Networks recently conducted a joint survey among IT decision makers at U.S. healthcare providers.

As healthcare costs continue to rise, providers are faced with the difficult task of choosing the most effective, affordable treatment at the point of prescribing. In most cases, however, providers do not have enough information to fully understand patients' insurance coverage and out-of-pocket costs. Now that more and more patients are sharing in the cost of their care, this can lead to confusion, dissatisfaction and even non-adherence to prescribed medications. During this webinar, you will hear how leading health systems are enabling providers to make data-driven and evidence-based decisions that help patients get the care they need at prices they can afford.

Consumers in healthcare are often forced to make healthcare decisions in an information vacuum. The information asymmetry in healthcare between patients and medical practitioners often translates to undue stress on patients, increased healthcare costs, and increased treatment complication and readmission rates. In this presentation, Grace Park, Co-founder and President of DocDoc will discuss how to build a patient-centric ecosystem that enables patients to find the right care at the right time.

News of cybersecurity incidents impacting healthcare systems and medical technologies is becoming an all-too-common occurrence recently.