A New Entry for Your Back-to-School Checklist: the Huddle Health app
Back-to-school clothes ready? Check. Backpacks filled with pencils and notebooks? Check. Summer reading list complete? Check. Kids’ health and immunization records ready to share with schools and sports teams. Uh-oh. Not so fast! In the hectic days leading up to a new school year, the last thing parents and caregivers want to juggle is their […]
Need Your Health Records on the Weekend? You May Be Out of Luck
Survey finds Americans want quick access to health information, but nearly half can’t get it when they need it ROCKVILLE, MD, June 28, 2022 – The vast majority of Americans (92%) say it is important to have quick, easy access to their medical records, but nearly half report trouble getting them from a patient portal […]
Putting Your Patient Empowerment to Work
We all want to feel a sense of control over the decisions and actions that affect our health and wellbeing. That includes having access to our electronic medical records. Gone are the days when being a “good patient” suggested passivity and compliance. Better armed with the tools we need to marshal our own health and […]
The Role of Technology in Caregiving, Visualized
Every year on the third Friday in February, we celebrate an important but often unrecognized group in the healthcare community: caregivers. An estimated 53 million people in the U.S.—about one in five of us—serve as caregivers to a spouse, parent, relative, child, or close friend. Who are caregivers? A caregiver is a person who is […]
A Medical App for Everyone
People download mobile apps for all sorts of reasons — to manage finances, track exercise goals, find the best restaurants, and even to watch 15-second dance videos. Whether they are productive or simply distracting, mobile apps give us the freedom to access whatever we want, whenever we want it. There’s no reason healthcare can’t be the same way. Accessing your health records is your right and storing them […]
How to Digitize Your COVID-19 Vaccine Card
After a (very) long 12 months of waiting for relief, all Americans ages 16 andabove are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
