As health care moves into the digital age, patient experience measurement—a cornerstone of today’s value-based health care movement—also must become digital. The results could mean a dramatic leap ...

A composite measure of a patient’s condition at discharge can be used to accurately predict the risk of an unplanned readmission within 30 days, according to a study in Medical Care. Researchers ...

A study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) evaluating the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) in patients with lupus finds that the questionnaire is valid in assessing ...

Healthcare organizations are using digital patient questionnaires to gather real-time data from patients, allowing clinicians to adjust care management when and where needed. Healthcare organizations ...

Although a number of patients receive treatment for sleep issues in primary care practices, the majority of this tracked sleep data never reaches healthcare providers. In response to this gap in ...

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in rheumatology are not just personal lists of physical complaints or so-called "organ recitals." In fact, PROs can both guide treatment decisions in daily practice ...

From June 2015 to December 2017, 53,954 questionnaires representing 26,242 patients were collected. Approximately 30% of the questionnaires were completed before the visit on an electronic patient ...

The authors discuss a simple strategy for payers to ensure more patients with type 2 diabetes achieve control of A1C. Possibly the first treatment guidelines and the precursors to quality metrics ...

Pharma marketers have always faced a delicate challenge: Get the right message to the right patient at the right time, while navigating one of the world’s most highly scrutinized industries. Today’s ...

Fingertip monitors known as pulse oximeters that can be used at home to detect low blood oxygen levels (hypoxaemia) give ...