Cancer patients may be empowered to try experimental treatments with a newly launched FDA program. Titled Project Facilitate, the FDA is aiming to provide patients that have exhausted all conventional treatment options with an easy route to their Expanded Access...
Good healthcare does not exist in a vacuum. In fact, a significant portion of delivering quality care hinges on the assumption that patients are willing and able to engage with medical professionals and visit care facilities. This is something that is a difficult sell...
Patient portals are a dream come true for many healthcare providers—anything that promotes health involvement is a godsend for ensuring that procedures and checkups go off without a hitch. Carers have sought to incentivize adoption by offering rewards for signups or...
While there are common tactics inherent in good patient engagement, any health organization must realize that patient populations are inevitably diverse. It can be difficult to make generalizations about any patient population, which is why it falls to hospitals and...
Patient engagement technology is a huge focus in the medical community for its potential to solve a range of problems. Communications, medication scheduling, and patient education are all areas that patient engagement technology helps improve. Implementing this...
There are a lot of ways in which the human genetic code can go wrong. Even beyond that, other conditions can plague individuals for their entire lives. With so much out there, it’s a wonder sometimes that we live as long as we do. Across the world, small groups of...
