Blog Category: How To

4 Types Of ROI Secure Messaging Apps Generate For Hospitals

February 24, 2016 | Uniphy Health

Secure texting apps are being used to do more than encourage HIPAA compliance. Many secure texting apps currently exist with care coordination, patient engagement and home care management capabilities.

3 Ways mHealth Apps Improve HCAHPS Scores & Patient Satisfaction

February 11, 2016 | Uniphy Health

Quality of care is based on two metrics, patient outcomes and patient satisfaction. Implementing tools that enhance patient satisfaction has become one of the main focuses of healthcare IT teams today.

4 Reasons To Integrate mHealth Apps For Coordinated Care with EMRs

February 2, 2016 | Uniphy Health

One of the biggest barriers to delivering quality care improvements is that clinicians and physicians struggle to access patient data stored in EMR systems. The integration of mHealth apps with pre-existing EMRs has been shown to accelerate patient-centric care coordination. These mHealth apps centralize patient data and information to help physicians and clinicians better manage … Continue reading 4 Reasons To Integrate mHealth Apps For Coordinated Care with EMRs

Inside Secure Messaging: 4 Reasons Clinicians Send Photo Messages

November 13, 2015 | Uniphy Health

Secure texting apps can be used for sending all types of messages—whether text, photo or video based. There are a myriad of situations where sharing a photo of a wound or injury allows clinicians and physicians to coordinate care with greater speed and precision. The four situations outlined below are prime examples of times when … Continue reading Inside Secure Messaging: 4 Reasons Clinicians Send Photo Messages

Inside Secure Messaging: Preventing Miscommunication With mHealth

October 21, 2015 | Uniphy Health

Secure messaging solutions promote collaborative care models by enabling users to quickly communicate and coordinate care decisions. With secure texting, physicians and clinicians send and receive sensitive patient health information on the go. Compared to emails, secure messaging is an instantaneous form of communication. Phone calls are equally as instantaneous, but more intrusive than communicating via secure … Continue reading Inside Secure Messaging: Preventing Miscommunication With mHealth

Inside Secure Messaging: Reaching On Call Physicians & Surgeons

October 20, 2015 | Uniphy Health

Secure texting apps that enable physicians and clinicians to achieve their care coordination goals are most commonly being integrated into hospital’s digital health strategies. EHR integration is essential for secure texting enabled, mHealth apps’ robust care coordination features and functions. In this post, we explore how secure texting apps enable clinical care teams to better … Continue reading Inside Secure Messaging: Reaching On Call Physicians & Surgeons

Inside Secure Messaging: Group & Picture Texting in Action

September 15, 2015 | Uniphy Health

The most advanced secure texting solutions enable clinicians and physicians to securely access clinical data, update or check patient notes and coordinate care with everyone involved in the care continuum—patients, their caretakers and loved ones included. There are various types of secure text functions that make care coordination improvement possible. In this post, we explain … Continue reading Inside Secure Messaging: Group & Picture Texting in Action

Inside Secure Messaging: Group & Picture Texting in Action

September 15, 2015 | Uniphy Health

The most advanced secure texting solutions enable clinicians and physicians to securely access clinical data, update or check patient notes and coordinate care with everyone involved in the care continuum—patients, their caretakers and loved ones included. There are various types of secure text functions that make care coordination improvement possible. In this post, we explain … Continue reading Inside Secure Messaging: Group & Picture Texting in Action

Tech Support: A Critical Element Of Engaging Patient Engagement Apps

August 13, 2015 | Uniphy Health

Selecting a mobile patient engagement app is not an easy process for providers. There are many aspects to consider when evaluating and comparing solution vendors. We’ve spent the last few months outlining 7 key factors, dissected into 40+ sub-points of consideration, providers should address when comparing mobile patient engagement apps. Mobile patient engagement apps will … Continue reading Tech Support: A Critical Element Of Engaging Patient Engagement Apps

4 Requirements Of Well-Adopted mHealth Apps For Patient Engagement

August 11, 2015 | Adam Turinas

One-size-fits-all patient engagement apps have the potential to do more harm than good, if they are not configured to address the functional and design standards of providers’ target patient populations. Many patients simply stop using mHealth apps if they find it difficult to navigate to functions that are relevant to their needs. For this reason, … Continue reading 4 Requirements Of Well-Adopted mHealth Apps For Patient Engagement

Engaging Patients In Coordinated Care Circles With Secure Messaging

August 6, 2015 | Adam Turinas

Patients are being encouraged to assume greater responsibility over their care decisions and make medical decisions in collaboration with physicians. For chronic disease sufferers—who by 2025 will represent almost half of Americans—outside support will become more essential as their daily care routine grows more complex. By expanding the care circle to include caregivers and family … Continue reading Engaging Patients In Coordinated Care Circles With Secure Messaging

6 Ways Secure Messaging Apps Boost Patient Experience

July 21, 2015 | Adam Turinas

In order to truly engage patients through mobile apps, improving the patient experience prior to and following care visits is essential. Patient experience improvement is an objective that should be addressed during the patient engagement app selection process. Here are 6 features and functions that your patient app should include to effectively improve the patient … Continue reading 6 Ways Secure Messaging Apps Boost Patient Experience

Improving The Doctor-Patient Relationship With mHealth

June 24, 2015 | Adam Turinas

At its best, communication failures cause delays in diagnosis and treatment. At its worst, patients’ health can rapidly deteriorate. A recent review of reports released by the Joint Commission found that communication failure between clinicians and patients is at the root of over 70 percent of serious adverse health outcomes in hospitals. For this reason, … Continue reading Improving The Doctor-Patient Relationship With mHealth

Is your mHealth app HIPAA compliant?

June 15, 2015 | Uniphy Health

For the first time in 5 years, providers surveyed by the Ponemon Institute cited criminal, malicious cyber-attacks as the root cause of data breaches.  Healthcare organizations, now more than ever, must ensure everyone using mHealth apps that support clinical care coordination, patient engagement or any other apps that handle sensitive patient health data are HIPAA compliant. Texts containing patient … Continue reading Is your mHealth app HIPAA compliant?

Can mHealth Improve Patient Engagement & Self-Management?

June 11, 2015 | Adam Turinas

Patient engagement apps can enable healthcare organizations to successfully encourage patients’ behavioral change and self-management, with the right functionality. These apps can make it easy for patients to proactively manage their overall health and pursue specific health goals so long as they keep patients informed, facilitate patient communication and simplify self-management. Let’s take a closer … Continue reading Can mHealth Improve Patient Engagement & Self-Management?

Assessing mHealth Apps Designed For Patient Engagement

May 18, 2015 | Adam Turinas

Increased patient engagement is one of the most challenging goals healthcare IT infrastructures must enable. Although this goal has been clearly established, there are many points of view on how technology can best enable this evolution. To engage patients, providers, patients and technology must come together. Both physicians and patients need tools that deliver data … Continue reading Assessing mHealth Apps Designed For Patient Engagement

System Evolution: #9 Factor in Choosing a Secure Texting App

January 15, 2015 | Adam Turinas

We’ve been releasing content on what critical factors to consider when choosing a secure texting app for some time now. This post will mark the end of the series that has addressed challenges such as how to evaluate a secure texting impact on clinical workflows, group messaging and voice capabilities and much more. The ability … Continue reading System Evolution: #9 Factor in Choosing a Secure Texting App

Vendor Support: #8 Factor in Choosing a Secure Texting App

December 17, 2014 | Adam Turinas

Vendor support is the eighth-most critical factor to consider when selecting a secure texting provider, as outlined in our series. A strong foundation of support is needed from secure texting vendors to ensure user satisfaction and adoption is sustained in the immediate and long term.   Here are some key points to consider when selecting a well-supported secure texting application: Accessible … Continue reading Vendor Support: #8 Factor in Choosing a Secure Texting App

User Friendliness: #7 Factor in Choosing a Secure Texting App

December 17, 2014 | Adam Turinas

Usability is the seventh-most critical factor to consider when selecting a secure texting provider. Healthcare organizations must deliberately evaluate the user friendliness of a potential secure texting app otherwise their care coordination, efficiency, and HIPAA compliance goals will be at risk. Here are some key issues to consider when selecting a user friendly secure texting … Continue reading User Friendliness: #7 Factor in Choosing a Secure Texting App

VOIP: #6 Most Important HIPAA Secure Messaging App Function

December 15, 2014 | Adam Turinas

In this installation of our series addressing the most critical factors to consider when selecting a secure texting provider, we discuss the importance of selecting a secure texting application that supports VOIP. In order for a secure texting solution to achieve mass adoption, it must support traditional modes of communication as well as text messaging. … Continue reading VOIP: #6 Most Important HIPAA Secure Messaging App Function