Category: Patient Engagement
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Saint Vincent CIO—Why the Patient Portal Sells Itself to Patients
At Saint Vincent Health System, the patient portal is just another cog in the machine. It’s another mechanism that helps the Erie, Pa-based, 427-bed tertiary care and teaching center carry out its overall strategy of patient-centered care. In this Q&A, CIO Richard Ong explains how the portal keeps patients connected with their practitioners day and…
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Patients Eager To Access Medical Images Online
A new study suggests that making medical images accessible online to patients might be a fruitful method for getting patient engagement up in time for Meaningful Use Stage 2, reports EHR Intelligence. The study, by IDR Medical and Carestream Health, surveyed 1,000 patients who had recently had an imaging study done, in an effort to examine…
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Hospital Optimizes Blood Distribution With Handheld Scanners
UMC St Radboud is a 1,000-bed university hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The hospital employs over 9,000 people and hosts 3,000 students. It includes several departments that handle different branches of medicine. The transfusion department, in particular, plays a central role as it distributes blood and blood products throughout the hospital. Accuracy is key to…
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Hospital Optimizes Blood Product Distribution With Handheld Scanners
UMC St Radboud is a 1,000-bed university hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The hospital employs over 9,000 people and hosts 3,000 students. It includes several departments that handle different branches of medicine. The transfusion department, in particular, plays a central role as it distributes blood and blood products throughout the hospital. Accuracy is key to…
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Study: Wireless devices improve patient engagement, outcomes
A study from the Center for Connected Health indicates that wireless mobile technologies can positively impact patient engagement, clinical outcomes and operational workflow in remote monitoring… read more Source: Study: Wireless devices improve patient engagement, outcomes
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Mobile Technology: Beyond Bedside Meds Administration at Colorado’s Parkview
Through the mobile care orchestration platform, one medical center has improved patient safety, care team awareness, and coordination across its clinical departments In 2007, Pueblo, Colo.-based Parkview Medical Center started using bedside medication administration technology from IntelliDOT Corporation, a vendor in San Diego that specialized in healthcare workflow management solutions. In 2009, IntelliDOT became Patient…
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Hospital discharge data provide a population-level picture of patient safety events in Pennsylvania
If all medical errors were counted together as a single cause, they would likely rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States. As health care personnel race to improve the quality of their care to save lives and prevent unneeded harm, a new study indicates there is more they can do…
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Morning Headlines 7/8/13
Outsourced UPMC workers protest cuts Transcriptionists at Pittsburgh’s UPMC protest the decision to outsource their jobs to Nuance. The workers were offered remote positions with Nuance, but at a significant pay cut. ONC Patient Safety Webinar ONC will hold a meeting on its recently announced patient safety plan. The meeting will be held this Wednesday,…
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Viewpoints on Medicare: Advantage program offers roadmap to improving the program; Rare bipartisan support for doctor pay fix
Concern about the size and cost of Medicare is understandable. With 10,000 or so baby boomers due to reach age 65 every day for the next 18 years, Medicare enrollment is exploding, and based on our projections, by 2023 — 10 years from now — should reach 66 million, up from 50.3. The need to…
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ONC Rolls Out Patient Safety Plan
A patient safety plan introduced July 1 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) outlines how Health & Human Services plans to respond to calls for health IT to play a greater role in reducing medical errors. Central to the effort is the push to establish mechanisms that facilitate incident reporting…