Category: Patient Engagement
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Patient Engagement: The Last Mile Of Population Health
With the steady influx of new e-tools designed to get patients more involved in their own care from the comfort of home, we might forget that effective patient engagement starts elsewhere. Electronic Personal Health Records (PHRs), secure patient-provider messaging, to-do checklists, and mobile phone-based discharge instructions are critical tools to manage patient care outside of…
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Charting A Course For Patient Safety
Ten percent of diagnoses are wrong, delayed, or missed. What can be done to correct this problem and save the 40,000 or more lives that are lost each year as a result? By Melissa Cole, BSN, MSW, FACHE …read more
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MedVantx MedStart Connect program increases patient initiation of new prescriptions
New research presented today at the World Congress Summit to Improve Adherence and Enhance Patient Engagement by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, finds that a unique generic medication sampling program, the MedVantx MedStart™ Connect program, implemented in the primary care physicians’ office, led to significantly increased patient initiation of new prescriptions…
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Twitter ‘Big Data’ Used to Monitor HIV Risk, Study Shows
A new UCLA-led study shows that real-time social media, such as Twitter, could be used to track HIV incidence and drug-related behaviors with the aim of detecting and potentially preventing outbreaks. A new UCLA-led study shows that real-time social media, such as Twitter, could be used to track HIV incidence and drug-related behaviors with the…
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Study: Global mHealth Market Poised for More Growth
The global mHealth market is expected to reach $49.1 billion by 2020, according to a new study by the San Francisco-based Grand View Research. The global mHealth market is expected to reach $49.1 billion by 2020, according to a new study by the San Francisco-based Grand View Research. According to the research, monitoring services are…
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Cincinnati joins with children’s hospitals to affirm critical role patient families play in making hospital stays
As National Patient Safety Awareness Week kicks off (March 2 – 8, 2014) Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is joining forces with children’s hospitals around the country to affirm the critical role patient families play in making hospital stays as safe as possible for their children. …read more
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Simple change in hospital laboratory reports may improve antibiotic prescribing practices
A simple change in how the hospital laboratory reports test results may help improve antibiotic prescribing practices and patient safety, according to a pilot, proof-of-concept study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online. …read more
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HIMSS Survey: Providers Making mHealth Progress
Providers are using mobile devices to view patient information, but they are still early in their adoption and implementation of mHealth, according to a HIMSS Analytics survey published at the HIMSS 2014 conference. Providers are using mobile devices to view patient information, but they are still early in their adoption and implementation of mHealth, according…
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Ventana to convene Tissue Diagnostics Patient Safety Advisory Board to improve patient safety in labs
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, today announced that it will convene a Tissue Diagnostics Patient Safety Advisory Board on February 27 at its headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. …read more
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Feds promise to publish FDASIA report on HIT regulation in March
Federal officials speaking at a panel discussion Tuesday at HIMSS14 in Orlando, Fla., said they expect to publish a draft report on a risk-based regulatory framework for health IT that promotes innovation, protects patient safety and avoids regulatory duplication by the end of March. read more …read more