Ascension CMO: Focus on these 5 areas to make precision medicine thrive
As part of his job as chief medical officer at Ascension Wisconsin, the Badger State outpost of the country's largest non-profit health system, Douglas Reding, MD, chairs a task force to explore best...
View ArticleED communications badges reduce security response times, foster sense of safety
When there's an emergency situation in a hospital that threatens the physical safety of staff and patients, time is of the essence for hospital security staff to get to the scene of the crisis.SUNY...
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Easing Clinicians' Patient Safety Concerns with Better Medication Management
Clinicians are on the front lines of care and therefore best understand patient safety challenges. This infographic offers clinician insights about the greatest vulnerabilities and opportunities for...
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Reducing Medication Errors Through Better Technology Integration
Medication errors made by caregivers, due in large part to a lack of integration across the medication management process, impact not only quality but cost as well. As this infographic shows,...
View ArticleEpic App Orchard adds predictive analytics and patient surveillance technology
Excel Medical, which markets technologies designed to eradicate unexpected deaths in hospitals, has debuted Wave, an FDA-cleared patient surveillance and predictive algorithm platform that's now...
View ArticleNewYork-Presbyterian adds more telemedicine-equipped mobile stroke care vehicles
Every minute after blood flow is even partially cut off from the brain, 1.9 million brain cells die due to lack of oxygen. So every second counts when it comes to treating someone who is suffering a...
View ArticleHealth industry groups: Time to tackle patient matching
A who's-who of health IT and interoperability experts including HIMSS, AHIMA, AMIA, CHIME, Sequoia Project, SHIEC, Surescripts and others called on Capitol Hill to finally make patient matching and...
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Population health program leverages social determinant data with help of...
In 2013, Earnest Carter, MD, deputy health officer of Maryland's Prince George's County Health Department, sought and received grant funding to improve population health in the community. His vision...
View ArticleColumbia Medical Associates saves $6.5 million in total cost of care by...
Columbia Medical Associates, a multi-specialty group practice based in Spokane, Washington, needed to rein in its rising healthcare costs and decided that one key area to focus on was reducing...
View ArticleFirst IT-savvy med students graduate under pioneering AMA program
The first graduating classes from some of the 32 medical schools to participate in the American Medical Association's pioneering curriculum modernization initiative are now ready to take their tech...
View ArticleVecna and Imprivata partner on biometric palm vein scanning for secure...
Vecna Technologies, a developer of patient self-service systems, has integrated its onsite patient check-in platform with Imprivata's PatientSecure identification technology. Through the partnership,...
View ArticleHospital taps iPad-based language interpretation that takes half the time of...
What happens when patients and caregivers don’t speak the same language? For one thing, when non-English speaking patients aren't provided interpreting services, patient engagement rates drastically...
View ArticleHow to communicate the value of value-based analytics initiatives
Leigh Williams has a metaphor she likes to use to describe the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care. It's about fishing, in a boat on a lake.When there's a storm forming on the horizon when...
View ArticleHIMSS Stage 7 benefits: Unified staff, quality improvement, positioning for...
Achieving Stage 7, the top stage, in the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model is quite a feat. It shows that a healthcare provider organization is playing at the top of its game in...
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Beyond Data: How Provider Directories Directly Impact Patient Care
Author: LexisNexisSponsor: LexisNexis Health CarePrimary topic: Patient EngagementTopic: Patient EngagementQuality and SafetyResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleIntegrating medication management with its EHR helped one hospital beat CMS...
King's Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, Mississippi, found it challenging to provide an accurate, verifiable home medication record for its providers to trust as they made important decisions...
View ArticleHow AI command centers are helping hospitals harness analytics to manage...
Tampa General Hospital has tapped GE Healthcare to help it build a new care coordination center that will put predictive analytics to work on an array of quality and experience improvement projects –...
View ArticleHIMSS weighs in on FDA software pre-cert program
The FDA's software precertification program aims to take a new approach to regulation for a health technology space that's evolving at dizzying speed. It's meant to offer a voluntary pathway that can...
View ArticleEarlySense acquires predictive analytics to help hospitals assess cardiac risk
Cardiac predictive analytics developed by Dana Edelson, MD, an expert in cardiac resuscitation at the University of Chicago, will be integrated into EarlySense's continuous monitoring tool, after the...
View ArticleAI is coming to a doctor's office near you, and AMA wants to be ready
For an organization that has no shortage of strongly held opinions on an array of topics affecting providers and the healthcare industry, the American Medical Association currently does not have an...
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