“It’s ironic that just when clinicians feel that there’s no time in their daily routines for thinking, the need for deep thinking is more urgent than ever. Medical knowledge is expanding rapidly, with a widening array of therapies and diagnostics… Read more
“Arlington-based Texas Health Aetna is offering north Texas employers access to its ER Doc virtual care app connecting patients to emergency room physicians, Mesquite News reports. The Texas Health Aetna ER Doc app, created and powered by Denver-based healthcare text… Read more
“Following a very successful initial community launch in December, this [Object Management Group (OMG) ‘”Business Process Modeling in Health’] workshop will continue to advance the agenda of health workflow portability. Exploring the development of an industry modeling ‘field guide’ to… Read more
“For CDS [clinical decision support] software that FDA [United States of America Food & Drug Administration] does not regulate, industry is best served by self-regulating through adopting basic software design guidelines. To that end, these guidelines are intended to foster… Read more
“Health IT provides new opportunities to engage patients and caregivers and can empower patients to learn and communicate more easily about their health, engage in shared decision making, and manage their care in convenient and meaningful ways. Market innovations and… Read more
“The EHR [electronic health record system] plays four primary roles in the hospital: a repository, a messenger, an orchestrator, and a monitor. An EHR imparts tremendous value as a repository of patient information: It provides a common dataset that can… Read more