Attempting to "reinvent healthcare communication," Jiffpad is an app that lets doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals communicate with patients via the iPad.
Intuit says the acquisition will be used to further its presence in the healthcare sector, helping medical professionals communicate with patients online, access and manage personal health records, and of course, provide a better way for patients and professions track healthcare expenses.
Importantly, philosophical positions influence how health professionals communicate with parents, including how research evidence is translated visually and verbally.
When healthcare professionals communicate with patients, there is high quality evidence to support the use of mobile phones to transmit short message service (SMS) reminders to improve attendance at health care appointments [ 5, 6].
The included studies suggest different types of communication technologies have the potential to be practical, cost-effective, and reliable methods of health professionals communicating effectively with young patients with diabetes.
We found nine papers advising health professionals on communicating with patients about vaccination but none that tailored communication to empirically derived parental positions [ 17- 21, 31- 34].
An overlap was found between women's experiences of their relationship with the health-care professionals before communicating with the NN, and the subsequent significance an NN had for the women.
Instead, it is advisable that professionals communicate directly with the child (Nilsson et al., 2013), otherwise they run the risk of limiting their understanding (Briggs, 2010) of the pain.
However, there are many other student healthcare populations that do not receive specialised training in communication as a focus of their education programs, but still spend significant amounts of time in their professional roles communicating with PWA.
Show respect and be professional when communicating with employees.
