“Most physicians today readily acknowledge that the biomedical information available exceeds what one person can learn and retain. Questions remain, however, regarding how much content students must learn, whether that learning is best done in traditional classroom settings, and what… Read more
“Increased awareness, early presentation to a health care facility or early recognition of health care–associated sepsis, rapid administration of appropriate antibiotics, and urgent treatment according to locally developed guidelines can significantly reduce deaths from sepsis. Since such measures have reduced… Read more
“You are aware that there are two main approaches to the management of septic shock in a patient such as Ms. Jones. One approach involves serial measurement of central venous pressure, central venous oxygen saturation (Scvo2), and hemoglobin, and following… Read more
“You are aware that there are two main approaches to the management of septic shock in a patient such as Ms. Jones. One approach involves serial measurement of central venous pressure, central venous oxygen saturation (Scvo2), and hemoglobin, and following… Read more
“In medicine, code blues — which are used in hospitals to indicate that a patient needs immediate resuscitation, usually due to a heart attack or respiratory collapse, for example — often mean death for the patient despite the medical staff’s… Read more
“A worldwide ransomware attack hit organizations across multiple continents Friday, with preliminary evidence showing infections in at least 14 countries, according to Reuters. No hospitals in the United States have reported experiencing an attack as of 2:30 p.m. CST, however,… Read more
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act required all public and private health care providers to adopt electronic medical records (EMR) by January 1, 2014, in order to maintaintheir existing Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels. This EMR mandate spurred significant growth… Read more
“Healthcare has entered the era of “Compliance 2.0,” fueled by information technology and analytics designed to root out fraud, contends Daniel Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services. Levinson, who has headed the HHS OIG for… Read more
“As healthcare moves away from a fee-for-service (FFS) model to a value-based model, the very nature of how health records are sourced and utilized is also changing. With the advent of the longitudinal patient record (LPR) and community care plan… Read more
“The successful implementation of real-time patient safety initiatives have long been a goal of health system CIOs. Unfortunately, parsing notifications from individual medical devices, reliance on physical spot checks of patients, and the lack of rules-based analytics to assess a… Read more