Category: Patient Engagement

We at Healthcare Informatics were delighted by the exceptional quality of the submissions we received from innovating teams from across the country, this year. Inside, please find descriptions of the initiatives of the six teams whom we have awarded semifinalist status in this year’s program. Innovation is everywhere in U.S. healthcare these days, and many…

Cuomo approves delay in electronic prescriptions New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signs into law a bill that will delay mandatory e-prescribing requirements for doctors in the state, calling the delay a win for patient safety and explaining, “The fact that many software companies are not ready for e-prescribing could have resulted in patients’ inability to…

Tillamook Regional Medical Center recently strengthened patient safety measures by expanding its use of capnography to monitor patients during moderate sedation. Sedation is commonly used during procedures such as colonoscopies and in some instances can suppress breathing. …read more Source:: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150312/TRMC-expands-use-of-capnography-to-monitor-patients-during-moderate-sedation.aspx       

United in Safety is the theme of Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundation, March 8 – March 14, 2015. GOJO Industries, a leader in hand hygiene and skin health and inventors of PURELL Hand Sanitizer, is joining the NPSF and hospitals across the United States to educate and gain awareness…

Electronic health records have not made as much progress in patient safety as the industry had hoped, which has spurred a “reinvigorated” need for improvement, according to a new editorial in BMJ Quality and Safety. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/path-improved-ehr-safety-requires-collaborative-research/2015-03-02?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

Gnanagurudasan Prakasam, M.D. is dealing with a critical, fragile patient population the same way most people connect with their long lost friend. The pediatric endocrinologist and featured panelist at iHT2’s Health IT Summit in San Francisco, is doing it through social media. Gnanagurudasan Prakasam, M.D. a pediatric endocrinologist based in Sacramento, Calif., is dealing with…

0 Staffed with researchers from the Indiana schools of nursing, informatics and computing, and liberal arts, a new lab’s goal is to leverage advanced computing methods to better understand how health science researchers can make use of social network data. How can analyzing social media help public health departments track important trends? Last year I…

A new research report, from the Boston-based Chilmark Research, indicates healthcare organizations have yet to fully develop and adopt patient engagement technologies. A new research report, from the Boston-based Chilmark Research, indicates healthcare organizations have yet to fully develop and adopt patient engagement technologies. After interviewing various industry stakeholders, researchers say that healthcare organizations are…

University of Missouri Health Care has announced that it is now giving its patients access to view outpatient visit notes through its patient portal. University of Missouri Health Care has announced that it is now giving its patients access to view outpatient visit notes through its patient portal. read more …read more Source:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/healthcare-informatics/~3/EOSq-qVBZa4/mu-health-care-gives-patents-access-online-physician-notes       

Innovative Examples of Patient Engagement Programs By Zach Watson For providers looking to increase patient engagement, it can be difficult to distinguish the abstract from the actionable. Patient engagement has become a veritable pillar of new reimbursement models, new government programs, and in some measure, the quality of a physician’s practice. But will better patient…