Leading healthcare providers share strategies to reduce care disparities
Spotlight on Social Determinants of Health This week’s Patient Experience Virtual Summit put a spotlight on disparities in care and what can be done to address them. The keynote speaker was Alisahah Cole, MD, System Vice President, Population Health Innovation and...
The next challenge for healthcare providers? COVID-19 vaccine distribution.
Recent news of the FDA’s emergency use approval of highly effective COVID-19 vaccines brings hope that our lives may soon return to normal. The vaccines, however, once approved, will still need to be distributed to millions of Americans. Healthcare workers and high...
Building a powerful digital engagement ecosystem
Providence is a forward-thinking, large health system that includes 51 hospitals and 1,085 clinics across multiple states. In a recent webinar, Sara Vaezy, Providence’s Chief Digital Strategy & Business Development Officer, shared some insight into their current...
With new guidance for colorectal cancer screening, do you know how to reach potentially impacted patients?
What changed? In late October the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released draft guidance regarding screening for colorectal cancer, recommending that colorectal screening should begin at age 45, not at 50. The recommendation is due to several reasons including:...
Build a Successful Perioperative Surgical Home with Patient Engagement
Creating a perioperative surgical home (PSH) is no small task and its success is dependent on multidisciplinary team work combined with engaged patients. In a recent webinar, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital’s Medical Director of Pre-Surgical Testing and...
The biggest healthcare disruptor might not be what you think
Growing pressures on healthcare providers Many in healthcare have been anticipating change for some time. With advancements of technologies like machine learning and the entry of big tech companies like Amazon and Google, health system leaders have been carefully...
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,...