“… Hospitals looking to establish precision medicine programs may need to investigate niche vendors, rather than relying on EMR [i.e. — electronic medical record a.k.a. electronic health record system] functionalities, according to a KLAS Research report. KLAS interviewed providers about their… Read more
“The lack of electronic health record interoperability and sharing of patient data continue to be major barriers to value-based care in Medicare. That’s the consensus of healthcare stakeholders who testified late last week before the House Energy and Commerce Health… Read more
“I appreciated the article on cognitive biases and diagnostic error by Mull et al in the November 2015 issue. They presented an excellent description of the pitfalls of diagnosis as reflected in a case of a patient misdiagnosed with heart failure who… Read more
“Need — Healthcare throughout the world is growing in expense and complexity. As new technologies and medications are developed, and new care options become available, the ability for the healthcare community to provide quality care is improving and yet the… Read more
“Despite all of the technological capabilities and data available, some healthcare organizations still rely on a hodgepodge of disconnected data, institutional memory or intuition for making key operational decisions. Too often, hospital decision makers rely on labor-intensive, error-prone spreadsheet analysis… Read more
“As artificial intelligence infiltrates healthcare a little more each day, fears of robots taking over the workforce grow, too — even among patients and caregivers — according to a Syneos Health Communications report … Here are six things to know. 1…. Read more
“Optimizing patient flow throughout the hospital is essential to ensuring safe, high-quality, patient-centered care. Providing timely access to appropriate care and optimizing hospital flow are both critical levers to increasing value for patients, clinicians, and health care systems. Conversely, poorly… 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
“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
“In healthcare, a lapse in communication between providers can have significant repercussions. For one, hospital system miscommunication is costly. Journal of Healthcare Management published a study finding U.S. hospitals waste $12 billion annually on communications inefficiencies. Poor clinician communication can… Read more