Tag: Health IT
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English PSA
English 102-031 Visual PSA Topic: racial and gender biases in physicians pain management decisions.
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Be Prepared: Lessons from an Extended Outage of a Hospital’s EHR System
Having an effective response plan is critical for mitigating the impact of downtime, and your organization has likely put a tremendous amount of thought and care into its contingency plan. But your plan may have an Achilles’ heel that your organization is completely unaware of—a weakness that could leave your organization as poorly prepared as…
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Electronic monitoring helps nurses boost hand-washing compliance
Electronic monitoring helped to dramatically improve hand hygiene among nurses, according to research published this month in the journal Computers, Informatics, Nursing. read more Source: Electronic monitoring helps nurses boost hand-washing compliance
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Adding Insult To Injury, Sutter’s Epic EMR Crashes For A Day
The Epic EMR at Northern California’s Sutter Health crashed earlier this week, leaving the system inaccessible for an entire day, reports Healthcare IT News. The system, which cost Sutter nearly $1 billion, went offline at approximately 8AM, locking out doctors, nurses and staff from accessing vital information such as medical lists and patient histories. The…
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Stage 2 and the Industry’s Full Court Pressure
A number of healthcare IT stakeholders are pushing the government to either delay or extend the timeline for Stage 2 of meaningful use, as I found in researching for a recently published feature article in the September issue of Healthcare Informatics. It kind of reminds me of the final minutes of a basketball game. In…
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Rise Of Mobile Health Care
Individuals are connecting to the Internet in exploding numbers, especially with mobile devices. Smartphone use grew by 45 percent from 2011 through 2012, and by 44 percent from 2012 through 2013, according to a new report by ABI Research. In addition, an article in Venture Beat citing the report concludes that there will be 1.4…
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Insurer, Provider Team Up for Accountable Care in Washington
Regence BlueShield in Seattle, Wash. and the five-hospital MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Wash. have teamed up to launch an accountable care program. The insurer and provider aim to further enhance care and bend the medical cost curve for people in the south Puget Sound region of the state. Regence BlueShield in Seattle, Wash. and…
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Health Information Exchange: Are We At an Inflection Point?
As health information exchange evolves forward, industry leaders and experts debate what to do about some of the continuing obstacles to granular-level data exchange. Should federal officials intervene? read more Source: Health Information Exchange: Are We At an Inflection Point?
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Evidence workshop minute: Sarah Emerson, mHealth Tanzania PPP
Sarah Emerson, CDC Foundation country manager for the mHealth Tanzania PPP talks about the importance of evidence collection. Video Rating: 5 / 5 Watch Gemalto M2M´s mHealth case study ‘Chronic Care Management’ Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Viewpoints: Rove says job losses growing under health law; GOP strategists say health overhaul is aiding their path to white house; Mich. Senators who opposed Medicaid expansion gave themselves lifetime medical benefits
Thousands of American higher-education administrators will spend part of Labor Day weekend trying to plumb the meaning of the ideas President Obama dropped on them last week to “reform” the American college and university system. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130830/Viewpoints-Rove-says-job-losses-growing-under-health-law3b-GOP-strategists-say-health-overhaul-is-aiding-their-path-to-white-house3b-Mich-Senators-who-opposed-Medicaid-expansion-gave-themselves-lifetime-medical-benefits.aspx