Deeply engaging patients in their care to improve care delivery and health outcomes is a universal, but elusive, goal across the clinician community. Several reasons contribute to this unfulfilled goal, including lack of a patient-centric approach, inadequate and outdated resources and tools, and misaligned incentives. Solving these three obstacles may…

Memora Health is committed to enabling health systems and provider groups to modernize patient access and develop stronger relationships with their patients. Memora’s unified solution helps access centers deploy intelligent appointment reminders, recall workflows, surveys, and balance notifications that improve efficiency and meet patient expectations. Memora’s suite of products allows…

Much of our collective COVID-19 vaccination success hinges on principles of patient experience: the basics of clear patient communication and easy appointment navigation. Unfortunately, logistical bottlenecks and lack of efficient communication channels have led to patient confusion, vaccine spoilage, and an overall stressful experience for both patients and clinicians. While…

The development and authorization of two vaccines against the novel coronavirus in less than a year, four times faster than any other vaccine R&D initiative in history, is a testament to humankinds’ scientific ingenuity. The rapid distribution of those vaccines from a few factories to hospitals, nursing homes, and public…

With the World Health Organization declaring the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic and governments around the world taking increasingly drastic measures to reduce its spread, communities are becoming anxious about the outbreak and health systems are being overwhelmed. …

Just over 50 years ago, Dr. George Engel’s landmark publication in Science shook health systems across the world; he summarized his proposal with: “The dominant model of disease today is biomedical, and it leaves no room within its framework for the social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness. …

With National Nurses Week upon us, the team at Memora Health reflected on the indispensable work our nation’s nurses put into every day they work at hospitals, clinics, and community health centers across the country. Although the training is long, difficult, and often thankless, nurse-practitioners, RNs, and other clinical health…

Between Apple’s foray into democratizing access to electronic health records, Amazon’s delivery system bringing the pharmacy to your doorstep, and Google testing software to detect diseases from x-ray images, technology has not only made access to health care more abundant, but is slowly laying the foundation for how we will…

With the news of Amazon’s Alexa, most often used via its Echo device, earning HIPAA compliance, voices were immediately polarized. Some were excited for the convenience and learning ability of voice-enabled monitoring and care, others were mortified at the thought. Our level of trust in the Age of Misinformation and…