Bringing Care to Patient Homes

Bringing Care to Patient Homes

Seeking medical attention is typically envisioned as checking into a hospital and receiving most necessary care there. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the already-growing field of telemedicine, leading to more medical professionals finding ways to care for...
How We Can (and should) Prepare for the Next Health Crisis

How We Can (and should) Prepare for the Next Health Crisis

As we as a nation and a world move into the second year of struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves in a position to look back on the response efforts from the public and private sectors. While many industries were able to mobilize and innovate at a...
What is Connected Health?

What is Connected Health?

Technologically assisted health services have been critical for health providers to utilize during the pandemic to give their patients safe and convenient options for accessing healthcare. However, these services– collectively referred to as connected...
The Role of Social Workers in Healthcare

The Role of Social Workers in Healthcare

When it comes to patient engagement, ample attention is given to doctors and nurses. After all, they’re the most prominent points of contact for any patient that goes through a healthcare facility. Their input can encourage good medication adherence and spur a patient...
Health Equity and Mobile Health Clinics

Health Equity and Mobile Health Clinics

   Some time ago, I wrote an article on mobile health clinics and their benefits. Over the course of the year since then, little has changed regarding healthcare disparity—populations in isolated areas often struggle with access to care, and MHCs can help bridge...
How COVID-19 Is Changing Digital Health

How COVID-19 Is Changing Digital Health

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations were faced with the herculean task of updating decades of physical data to EHRs. This task has been drawn out for a long time, to the point where earlier EHRs themselves are outdated enough to require another...