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Better Health Info, Better Health: Announcing ONC’s Certified HIT Mark
More and more Americans across the country are relying on their doctors and hospitals to provide them with top-quality health care. Health information technology (HIT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care with secure sharing of health information through technology like electronic health records (EHRs), helping to improve patient care.…
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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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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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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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Are We There Yet? Using Genomic Information in EHR for Patient Care
It’s Monday July 8 and you woke up feeling sick, and you know you better see your doctor. In the office, your doctor looks you over, listens to your symptoms, but before he prescribes a drug, the doctor said, “Lets get a sample of your blood so that I can take a look at your…
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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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Creating a Masterpiece: Madonna Rehab’s Team Composite Draws Together Multidisciplinary Documentation
Leaders at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital have implemented a team composite record, which takes documentation from all of its different units and disciplines and standardizes it into a common format within the organization’s EHR. In this interview, Roberta Steinhauser, Madonna’s director of hospital applications, reveals how the composite has improved clinician workflow. Leaders at Madonna Rehabilitation…
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Study: EHR Adoption Among Urban Providers is Lacking
Healthcare providers in large metropolitan areas are less likely to have implemented electronic health records (EHRs) than providers in smaller metro and rural areas, according to a new study in Health Services Research. Healthcare providers in large metropolitan areas are less likely to have implemented electronic health records (EHRs) than providers in smaller metro and…