Day: February 16, 2021
Transportation and Health: Joining the Dots
Transportation and Health: Joining the Dots Research has shown that social and economic factors, which includes access to transportation, accounts for around 40% of our health and well-being (Measures & Data Sources). The reason transportation plays such a pivotal role in improving health and well-being is because of the barrier it represents to accessing healthcare…
Major Impact of a Missed Non Emergency Medical Appointment
Major Impact of a Missed Non Emergency Medical Appointment With the average no-show rate of 62 appointments a day, the annual cost of missed appointments is 3 million USD per hospital. There are multifold reasons for such a gap between providers, patient transportation services, and the end customer – patients. One major cause is hospitals still utilizing manual…