Ajay Prasad is the CEO of GMR Web Team, a full-service healthcare digital marketing agency focused on patient acquisition and retention. With healthcare becoming more patient-centric, it's crucial for ...

This flexibility is particularly valuable for patients who experience symptoms outside of traditional therapy hours or those ...

Patient satisfaction is at the core of patient centered medicine. Improved patient satisfaction not only leads to an enhanced patient experience—something every sick or injured patient deserves—it is ...

The patient overwhelm problem tuning shows 70% of patients tune out messages; hospitals must unify communications to improve engagement and outcomes.

1. Express geniality. Smile a warm smile as opposed to a wide grin. 2. Speak low and slow. When you first see a patient, speak in a lower voice and slower. Patients are more receptive when you move ...

Airlines often send their passengers off with a cheery announcement along the lines of "We know you have a choice of carriers, and we thank you for choosing us." Will the same spiel become a staple of ...

This descriptive, nonexperimental cross-sectional study surveyed patients who used 1 of 8 community telepharmacies that had operated for more than 2 years in rural and/or medically underserved ...

Pend Oreille Surgery Center in Ponderay, Idaho, has shown outstanding patient satisfaction scores. Administrator Kris Sabo suggests 10 ways to keep patient satisfaction high. 1. Get clear patient ...

My resident describes our next emergency room patient — a 32-year-old female with severe, crampy mid-abdominal pain, vomiting and occasional loose stools. The symptoms have been present for nearly a ...

Study design. This prospective, randomized, controlled, parallel-group study compared the use of pen devices with conventional vials and syringes for the administration of insulin in hospitalized ...

When I started work as a certified physician assistant (PA-C) 30 years ago, I provided health care for the homeless as the medical officer for an outreach mobile health team in Brooklyn, N.Y. I ...

Patients who are satisfied with their physicians are more likely to follow through with metabolic or bariatric surgery (MBS) regardless of racial or ethnic group, according to a study led by ...