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Under the Microscope: Telemedicine Care in Texas Prisons
In Texas, a state that is known for its size, providing care to the nation’s largest prison population is incredibly hard, especially when you consider that most facilities are dispersed in remote locations. To solve this conundrum, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice turned to telemedicine. Since the program’s inception, the prison telemedicine program has…
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New AACN Practice Alert outlines evidence-based protocols to improve effective use of clinical alarms
Clinical alarms designed to alert nurses to changes in their patients’ conditions have become a continual barrage of noise that poses a significant threat to patient safety, according to the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. …read more Source: New AACN Practice Alert outlines evidence-based protocols to improve effective use of clinical alarms
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Rigorous interventions result in fewer infections, deaths associated with hospital-onset C. difficile
Rhode Island Hospital has reduced the incidence of hospital-associated Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections by 70 percent and reduced annual associated mortality in patients with hospital-associated C. difficile by 64 percent through successive implementation of five rigorous interventions , as reported in the July 2013 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient…
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Docs wild about iPad apps
As physicians continue to switch EHR systems or select a first vendor, a new survey by research firm Black Book Rankings has identified a “meteoric trend” in favor of mobile EHR applications, especially a marked leaning for iPad apps. Big data: None read more
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Epic, Kaiser Permanente Among Founding Organizations of Healtheway Initiative
Healtheway, a non-profit collaborative effort for health data interoperability between private and public organizations, has announced its nine founding organizations for the eHealth Exchange initiative. The group includes health IT heavyweight, Epic (Verona, Wisc.), the American Medical Association (AMA), and integrated care delivery provider, Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.). Healtheway, a non-profit collaborative effort for health…
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Facebook Initiative Boosts Organ Donor Registration Significantly
An initiative on Facebook single-handily led to a 21-fold increase of people who registered themselves as an organ donor in a single day, researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently discovered. The results of the study indicate that social media may be the perfect way to battle the static number of donors in the country. An…
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NextGen adopts EHR Developer Code of Conduct to improve care
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today its commitment to adopting the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Association’s EHR Developer Code of Conduct to improve care, increase efficiencies, enhance patient safety and provide better outcomes.
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Readers Write: Time Out for Pre‐Implementation Training
Time Out for Pre-Implementation Training By Tiffany Crenshaw I’d like everyone to join me in giving a hand to the nurses at Marin General Hospital for bringing a bright spotlight to the specific issue of healthcare IT implementations and patient safety, and the broader issue of the enormous pressure hospitals are under today. As recently…
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EHR mastery proves elusive for many
They never said navigating the electronic medical record landscape would be easy — at least not at first. And as new regulations from both federal and state spheres begin to tighten their hold around the industry, the valleys of EHR adoption and EHR mastery are sure to only become more congested and therein, even harder…
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