Category: Patient Engagement
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Morning Headlines 4/30/15
The Evidence Shows IOM Was Right on Health IT and Patient Safety ONC publishes its first of four planned reports on health IT and patient safety, titled Recent Evidence That Health IT Improves Patient Safety, the report cites a group of studies to support the argument that health IT has reduced medication error rates, enhanced…
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KLAS Report Names Top Vendors at Driving Patient Portal Adoption
Among rated vendors, Epic, athenahealth and Medfusion are the most effective at helping their customers drive patient portal adoption, according to a new report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS Research. Among rated vendors, Epic, athenahealth and Medfusion are the most effective at helping their customers drive patient portal adoption, according to a new report from…
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At the Crowded HIMSS Conference, Making Sense of a Crowded mHealth Space
To get some clarity on a congested mobile health market, Healthcare Informatics Senior Editor Gabriel Perna spoke with The Advisory Board’s managing director Kenneth Kleinberg at the annual HIMSS conference, this year held at McCormick Place in Chicago. At no other point in time have mobile health applications, devices, and platforms been as popular as…
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First evidence-based guideline released to ensure patient safety
Today, the College of American Pathologists and the National Society for Histotechnology released the first evidence-based guideline to ensure patient safety through the uniform labeling of paraffin blocks and slides. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150423/First-evidence-based-guideline-released-to-ensure-patient-safety.aspx
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Looking for Safety Insights in Medication Order Changes
0 Despite the widespread adoption of computerized provider order entry systems, medication management remains a huge patient safety challenge. healthcare system. Could looking at data from multiple sources across the hospital help identify previously unknown safety risks? Despite the widespread adoption of computerized provider order entry systems, medication management remains a huge patient safety challenge.…
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Dr. Jayne at HIMSS 4/16/15
I’m home but still playing catch-up with my HIMSS experiencing. As I was triaging my inbox, I found a gem about a new patient engagement product. It wasn’t a great release and didn’t even mention the vendor showing it at HIMSS. Who sends dry press releases during HIMSS and doesn’t even mention the conference? I’m…
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Patient Satisfaction and Patient Engagement Race to the Top of CIOs’ Agendas: HIMSS Leadership Survey
At HIMSS15, which is enjoying record attendance this year at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, dramatic new results from the HIMSS Leadership Survey are reflecting policy and industry focus on patient concerns in healthcare Patient satisfaction, patient engagement, and quality of care improvement have raced to the top of healthcare CIOs’ and senior IT…
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Disappointing Proposed Change to Stage 2 Looms Over Patient Engagement Symposium
0 The air was let out of the room towards the end of a great panel at the patient engagement symposium, part of the pre-HIMSS education at the 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Chicago. The air was let out of the room towards the end of a great panel at…
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Shahid’s No BS guide to patient engagement at #HIMSS15
I’ll be at #HIMSS15 in Chicago this week and am preparing for the onslaught of the term “patient engagement”. It’s both overused and ill-defined which means it’s almost meaningless as a category of technology or approaches. It’s also multi-faceted which means a definition is not going to be forthcoming soon; so, I’m not going to…
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Very little guidance exists for training surgeons on new procedures, technologies, say U-M Medical members
For all the attention hospitals have paid to patient safety in the last decade, a big blind spot is making them – and their patients – vulnerable to harm, according to a new Viewpoint piece in JAMA by members of the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150409/Very-little-guidance-exists-for-training-surgeons-on-new-procedures-technologies-say-U-M-Medical-members.aspx