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It’s a difficult time for patients, clinicians and the general public right now. I see that all around me — from friends, from family, from GetWellNetwork’s own employees. 

Dear clients,

2019 was a busy year for GetWellNetwork, one that saw the continued integration of GetWell Loop, the rollout of GetWell Anywhere and an exciting collaboration with Cerner, helping to put patients at the center of care.

Recently, we’ve talked about integrating patient engagement software with an EHR. We’ve also talked about how there are integration opportunities — lots of them — for your digital front door strategy. But integration sounds complex, clients tell us. “Why would I take it on?”

In my last post, I talked about EHRs integrating with patient engagement solutions: why EHRs might do this, what value a patient engagement technology might bring to the relationship and what it all means for the patient.

The implementation of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system for a healthcare organization can be an enormous undertaking, in terms of money, time and effort. These systems are comprehensive and complex, offering features to aid both patients and providers. 

More than 40 million Americans perform a family caregiving role each year for a loved one. These include often overlooked caregiving populations, including men, people from every race/ethnicity and millennials. Not only is this work unpaid, but it often incurs extensive out-of-pocket costs for the…

Healthcare is bankrupting the nation, and instinctively health system leaders know that they will never make more money than they are making in this industry today. That said, leaders have to take a very non-traditional approach to margin growth shifting away from throughput and towards outcomes…

As clinical staff, we all want what’s best for our patients. Care management is meant to improve patient care and help patients and families learn to manage conditions in a way that will ideally lessen the need for future medical intervention. It’s a worthy goal, but the traditional approach to…