Digital health technology utilization is associated with enhanced patient perspectives of care

Digital health technology utilization is associated with enhanced patient perspectives of care

Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores measure patient experience and perspectives on care. Novel health information technologies facilitate communication between patients and healthcare teams. Playback Health is a health information technology that incorpor...

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Published in:Clinical neurology and neurosurgery Vol. 239; p. 108218
Main Authors: Shah, Harshal A., O’Donnell, Devon B., Galvez, Rosivel, Reed, Max E., Ghosh, Debora, Katz, Rebecca R., Bedi, Anupama D., D’Amico, Randy S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01-04-2024
Elsevier Limited
Subjects:
Clinical outcomes
Communication
COVID-19
HCAHPS Scores
Health care
Health information
Hospitals
Medicine
Multimedia
Neurosurgery
Nurses
Pandemics
Patient outcomes
Patient satisfaction
Patient-centered care
Patients
Physicians
Playback
HCAHPS Scores
Patient outcomes
Communication
Health information
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Summary:Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scores measure patient experience and perspectives on care. Novel health information technologies facilitate communication between patients and healthcare teams. Playback Health is a health information technology that incorporates multimedia for providers to communicate health information to patients, their support network, and their healthcare teams. We hypothesized implementing Playback Health may enhance patient perspectives on care. HCAHPS scores were obtained retrospectively from a neurosurgical practice located in a metropolitan area between 2020 and 2022 for seven providers. Of these, four providers utilized Playback Health, and three did not. Individual providers’ scores were compared between domains using two tailed t-tests at a significance level of p < 0.05. Playback Health use was associated with higher HCAHPS scores across varying domains from 2020 through 2022 as well as overall scores. In 2020, the mean overall score of HCAHPS users was higher than non-users (89.65 vs. 87.28, p = 0.0095). In 2021, again higher mean overall scores were observed in users as compared to non-users (89.11 vs. 87.79, p 0.0266). In 2022, Playback Health users maintained higher scores across communication domains and overall scores (p < 0.00001). Comparisons within domains between Playback Health users and non-users revealed no domains in which non-users had a significantly higher score than users. The addition of Playback Health multimedia health information technology was associated with improved patient satisfaction scores. When used as an adjunct to existing patient care, multimedia health information technologies may improve patient perceived care. •Digital healthcare technologies facilitate communication between patients and providers.•Utilization of health information technologies improves patient perceptions of care.•Use of health information technology is associated with higher HCAHPS scores.
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ISSN:0303-8467
1872-6968
DOI:10.1016/j.clineuro.2024.108218