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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait for the test results. Doctors see patients in rushed 15-minute appointments, often without a cursory physical exam. One aspect of being a healthcare consumer that can be most maddening is the hours of time spent waiting for things to happen. We wait to see the provider. We’re stalled in the emergency room waiting area.

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Healthcare AI: What’s in your chatbot?

The Healthcare Blog

Tens of millions of people (especially younger generations ) are already leaning into AI for help with health and wellness, testing the waters of off-the-shelf apps and tools like ChatGPT. Beyond the usual self-triage, the numbers tell us that up to 40% of ChatGPT users have consulted AI after a doctor’s appointment.

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Manage your EHR inbox more effectively with these tips

Mobius MD

While we often focus our blog articles on streamlining clinical documentation , managing the deluge of messages in your EHR is equally important. Forwarding urgent messages to a triage nurse can help determine whether a patient needs an appointment, urgent care, or an ER visit.

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CQC overhaul: what it means for general practice management

Practice Index

To strengthen sector expertise, the CQC is appointing at least three chief inspectors to focus on primary care, hospitals and adult social care. The real test will be whether these adjustments reduce the administrative load or simply shift it around. A more detailed summary would be a better reflection of our efforts.” What lies ahead?

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Patient satisfaction heads in the right direction – but not everywhere

Practice Index

More people said they were offered a choice of appointment times and, perhaps best of all, confidence and trust in the healthcare professional they saw or spoke to remains high, holding steady at 93%. Another contributing factor is the growing use of the NHS App and other online tools for test results, prescriptions and health records.

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Can EHRs Expand to Become Health Systems’ “Platform of Platforms” (UDHPs)?

The Healthcare Blog

Jennings of Untangle Health Here’s an outline of today’s blog post: A Brief Recap: What are UDHPs? The DHP Reference Architecture is illustrated in a blog post by Better. As we discussed in a previous blog post , UDHPs can be architected to integrate with and leverage existing data repositories, including EHRs.

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Primary care news round-up (24th to 30th April 2025)

Practice Index

Under recent changes to the GP contract, practices must allow patients to make online requests for appointments from October. Project to test linking practices to community initiatives A major project is to investigate how local community initiatives can work with practices to improve health. Practices delivered 31.4