The Twistle Blog
A blog exploring how the thoughtful use of technology is transforming the way the healthcare industry is engaging with patients to improve their health.
Time to Adopt Digital Patient Engagement
Will we look back on this period as the tipping point for digital patient engagement solutions that make it easy to educate, monitor, and assist patients through the healthcare labyrinth safely and efficiently? When health systems consider the adoption of new...
Six Key Remote Patient Monitoring Workflows to Manage COVID-19 Patients Now
Sometimes it can feel as though COVID-19 has been around for an eternity given its impact on everyday life in America. So it's a little mind-boggling that it was in just mid-January that the first recognized case in the US was announced, and mid-March when it...
Digital Patient Communications Can Force Multiply Your Patient Care Team
Helping valuable clinical resources maximize their patient engagement has always been important. Since the COVID outbreak, providing care teams with easy-to-use digital patient communications has become critical to managing large numbers of patients. When a...
Top 10 Lessons Learned from Behind the COVID-19 Frontlines
Twistle has been actively engaged with several major healthcare systems helping monitor and manage thousands of COVID-19 patients since the earliest encounters in the United States. In addition to remote patient monitoring, Twistle has also helped health systems keep...
The Top 3 Questions When Evaluating a COVID-19 Technology Solution
Standing up technology in the middle of a pandemic can seem overwhelming, but the right partner can ease the burden, expedite the process and provide support for an overburdened staff. Over the last few weeks, the Twistle team has been partnering with health systems...
The Most Important Element of the Perioperative Surgical Home: Effective Change Management
In hospitals that have re-engineered their surgical processes to break down silos and create an effective multidisciplinary approach to surgery, patient engagement and patient education tools have a much bigger impact on perioperative care. Hospitals that have...
Using Digital Health to Monitor Caregivers during Special Pathogen Outbreaks
Scarlet fever, the Black Plague, smallpox, the flu… over the course of centuries, these diseases spread, taking millions of lives and causing wide-spread hysteria and panic. On December 31, 2019, COVID-19, more commonly known as Coronavirus, was reported in Wuhan,...
Best Practices for Communicating with Patients Electronically
When we communicate with people-- whether through verbal or written means-- we have a tendency to say more than what is necessary to get our point across. In many instances, a brief, concise statement will do just as well as a lengthy, context-filled monologue. The...
An Introduction to Twistle’s Blog: Technology Merging with the Human Experience to Improve People’s Health
“Our passion is to drive change in the medical field using technology in a way that enables patients to become partners in their own care. Better decisions lead to improved outcomes, and in its most distilled form, this saves lives.” –Kulmeet Singh, CEO, Twistle...