By Thomas Mason MD – Playbooks Aren’t Just for Sports Teams: Clinicians and other health care providers practice medicine with the noble goal of improving patient outcomes. The day-to-day considerations in treating patients are complex, which is where technology can be leveraged to streamline and better inform the patient-provider interaction.
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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded the NHC $246,300 through the PCORI Eugene Washington Engagement Award program to create a patient-specific curriculum on health care quality. NHC, collaborating with the NQF and U of MD, will create a patient-specific curriculum on health care quality.
If your healthcare organization is like most, you have a lot of them. You may not use them, or even access them much, but you probably still spend a lot of time and money on them. Take the Bridgehead Software survey and you will be entered in a drawing for the Moto 360 smart watch.
By John Halamka MD – Earlier this week, the American Medical Association CEO called digital healthcare products modern-day “snake oil”. As a provider and a technologist, I think we need a deeper dive to understand the issues, avoiding the kind of hyperbole that’s so common in politics today.
By D’Arcy Gue – You may be suffering from IT security fatigue at this point, for which I offer a half-hearted apology. Yes, only half-hearted, because the numbers say healthcare is aware of various security threats but still remains vulnerable, making it imperative that the subject stay top of mind until patient data is reliably protected.
By Paul Stinson – Health IT-related issues are well-represented on the ECRI Institution’s 2016 list of “Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations.” Heading the list: “Health IT configurations and organization workflow that do not support each other.” Other top concerns include patient identification problems and inadequate test-result reporting and follow-up.
By Matt Fisher – A patient contacts their physician’s office and asks for a copy of their medical record. The expected response would seem to be obvious. Sure, we will copy the record and send it to your shortly. Not only will the record be sent, but it will be sent in an easily accessible format and exactly as requested.
In his address to the House of Delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) Annual Meeting, AMA CEO James L Madara, M.D. outlined the challenges and opportunities facing medicine in today’s rapidly-changing digital economy.
Here’s what’s happening to make that reality – DirectTrust launches Partnership for Patients Program, AMA and other medical societies call for a change in interoperability measurements, & Diasend collaborates with Abbott to simplify diabetes data management.