Patient Activation
Breast cancer screenings have been dialed back to age 40; plan ahead to tackle emerging care gaps
Carrie Kozlowski, COO & Co-Founder
As if patients’ slow return to care following the pandemic wasn’t a challenging premise enough, healthcare enterprises now face an emerging care gap: in breast health.
What healthcare gets wrong about patient engagement (Hint: Sending a text message isn’t enough.)
Carrie Kozlowski, COO & Co-Founder
Sending mass text messages and simply crossing our fingers that patients will follow through with visits isn’t enough to win their trust or stand against the competition. So, how can healthcare enterprises earn patient loyalty? There is no silver bullet, and it certainly isn’t going to work until advanced personalization, a skill companies such as Amazon have already mastered, becomes a top strategic priority across the entire organization.
Is healthcare home to the next wave of AI innovation?
Upfront Healthcare, Staff
Roughly 68% of patients believe healthcare providers need to improve their interactions with patients. In the areas of patient engagement, we know that offering personalized digital communications is critical to driving outcomes and health systems’ operational success. Could AI be the key to unlocking an even better patient experience?
The spotlight is on … Andreo Sebastiani, Product Manager, Platform and Interoperability
Upfront Healthcare, Staff
Andreo Sebastiani has always thrived on challenges. Growing up in Pittsburgh, his early ambitions were fueled by sports and PC gaming, and soon evolved into an exciting career in tech. Today, as the Product Manager for Platform and Interoperability at Upfront, Andreo tackles complex integrations for health systems, improving the user experience and protecting data security for enterprises. Here’s how he’s navigating a career in health tech in an era of rapid transformation.
Focus on health equity intensifies, but much more work needs to be done
Lindsay Zimmerman, PhD, MPH, Vice President, Bartosch Patient Activation Institute
It is exciting to see how much healthcare has begun to focus on health equity in recent years, but we still have a tremendous opportunity to better serve patients and our communities. Cross-functional collaborations, and more discussions like those at the KLAS SDOH Summit, are the only way we will be able to remove patient barriers and ensure all patients have the care they need and deserve.
As Covid relief measures sunset, a potential Medicaid crisis looms. Here’s how healthcare systems can leverage digital engagement to create persistent enrollment
Carrie Kozlowski, COO & Co-Founder
In recent weeks it has been reported that the COVID-19 relief laws Congress enacted in 2020, which prohibit states from removing people from Medicaid, will end next month, meaning that local governments can resume eliminating people who no longer qualify for the program or do not furnish the required personal information, including address, income, and household size.