How Evidence-Based Clinical Documentation Gives Time Back to Nurses
By Sarah Michel – As nurses, we know that patient care is not one-size-fits-all. Every patient has unique needs when it comes to determining the best course of treatment.
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Managing Risk During and After Patient Discharge
By Luis Castillo – No matter who your patient is, there’s no way to avoid a certain degree of risk. If there were, preventing readmissions would be a much easier prospect. But even if we can’t eliminate risk entirely, we can certainly manage it.
What Makes a Best Practice Best?
By William Hyman – “Best Practice” is a popular descriptor for a variety of processes and activities. A recent search of HITECH Answers produced 13 items with Best Practice in the title.
Updated QPP Participation Status Tool
CMS updated its Quality Payment Program Participation Status Tool to include 2018 Qualifying APM Participant (QP) and MIPS APM status. The tool has been updated based on calculations from the first snapshot of data from APM entities.
What’s Going On with Blockchain in Healthcare?
Keeping up with technologies that are changing how healthcare is delivered. Can a continuously growing chain of blocks using cryptography have applications in healthcare? News from Mount Sinai, Allive, SimplyVital Health, and Timicoin/TimiHealth.
How Does Technology Reach Escape Velocity
New Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist Episode NOW on Demand with host Dr. Nick and guest Alfred Poor, Editor and Publisher of Health Tech Insider and a long-standing member of the technology community.
Reputation vs. Effectiveness: Is Patient Engagement Real?
By Anish Sebastian – Whether it’s stock trading with a few clicks on a smartphone, streaming new music before the vinyls hit the shelves, or receiving a wardrobe from a personal stylist without ever stepping into a store, technology’s potential to revolutionize the consumer experience is ubiquitous across industries.
More Customer Empowerment and Engagement Would Help Improve the Medical Debt Crisis
By Heather Grover – The figures painting the picture of the nation’s patient medical debt crisis are astounding. Consumers are struggling to pay for care and that makes the media headlines, understandably so.
Three Ways to Revolutionize EHR With Blockchain
By Inga Shugalo – When it comes to EHRs, physicians tend to take them as a necessary evil. While health specialists struggle to work with clogged and slow legacy systems, they can’t just quit on using them.