Administrators often view missed calls as an efficiency issue. Patients experience something different: uncertainty. That ...

There are numerous calls for building health care delivery systems that are more patient centered. The focus on patient-centered care has increasingly begun to rely upon, and even merge with, the ...

Patient engagement is an increasingly important component of strategies to reform health care. In this article we review the available evidence of the contribution that patient activation—the skills ...

With the digital era at its peak, everything has become faster, simpler, and more convenient. Nowadays, when we’re feeling hungry, we don’t have to go through the painstaking process of preparing ...

As anyone who’s ever been to a doctor’s appointment knows, medical offices use registration forms to collect each patient’s name, address, biological sex assigned at birth and more. This information ...

A doctor–patient relationship (DPR) is considered to be the core element in the ethical principles of medicine. DPR is usually developed when a physician tends to a patient’s medical needs via ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...