--- title: The UbiBlog | Patient Engagement and Value-Based Care Analysis | patient education description: patient education | UbiCare provides total engagement solutions enabling hospitals to be at the forefront of patient-centered innovation and value-based care through targeted education, mobile connections and real time data. --- [![logo](https://blog.ubicare.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Ubicare_Image/logo.png?width=250&name=logo.png)](http://www.ubicare.com/) - [Home](https://ubicare.com/) - [About](https://ubicare.com/about-ubicare/) - [Blog](https://blog.ubicare.com/) - [Client Login](https://mobile.ubicare.com) - [Contact Us](https://ubicare.com/contact/) ## [Flu Shots Are a Top Healthcare Priority This Year](https://blog.ubicare.com/flu-shots-are-a-top-healthcare-priority-this-year) Posted by [Debra Zalvan](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/debra-zalvan) on Nov 5, 2020 7:15:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/2020-flu-shot-blog_social_badge.png)](https://blog.ubicare.com/flu-shots-are-a-top-healthcare-priority-this-year) ## How Do You Make Sure Your Patients Get the Message? According to the [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/index.html), “reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses, like flu, this fall and winter is more important than ever.” Keeping people healthy during flu season and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic will be particularly important – and challenging. So how do hospitals, health systems and medical practices attract patients’ attention, counter misinformation and successfully urge patients to get the flu vaccine? How do you ensure that patients receive critical messages that can impact care, outcomes and cost? [Read More](https://blog.ubicare.com/flu-shots-are-a-top-healthcare-priority-this-year) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.ubicare.com/flu-shots-are-a-top-healthcare-priority-this-year#comments-listing) Topics: [Patient Engagement](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-engagement), [UbiCare](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/ubicare), [SmarteXp](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/smartexp), [patient education](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/patient-education), [COVID-19](https://blog.ubicare.com/topic/covid-19) ## [Digital Communication with Patients Improves Care Outcomes and Decreases Costs, particularly in COVID-19 fallout](https://blog.ubicare.com/digital-communication-with-patients-improves-care-outcomes-and-decreases-costs-particularly-in-covid-19-fallout) Posted by [John Pietro](https://blog.ubicare.com/author/john-pietro) on Aug 21, 2020 6:01:54 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.ubicare.com/hubfs/john_pietro-blog_social_featured_image.png)](https://blog.ubicare.com/digital-communication-with-patients-improves-care-outcomes-and-decreases-costs-particularly-in-covid-19-fallout) With [losses of more than $202.6 billion during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2020/05/aha-covid19-financial-impact-0520-FINAL.pdf), U.S. healthcare is suffering and there’s no end in sight. Healthcare organizations and providers have quickly turned to telehealth to maintain care, [increasing its use by 50% in primary care alone](https://aspe.hhs.gov/pdf-report/medicare-beneficiary-use-telehealth). 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