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A medical device clinical trials starter guide. “Incorporating clinical studies prior to design ’freeze’ into a medical device product development plan is foreign to some organizations, including supposedly nimble start-ups. Changing a company’s clinical research philosophy requires well-defined goals, proactive collaboration between functional areas and discipline.”
Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Ending unnecessary medical errors means major political, hospital reforms. “Those who follow health care closely have long been aware of this problem, which would never be tolerated in, say, the airline industry. The Institute of Medicine in its landmark study ’To Err Is Human’ in the late 1990s estimated there were nearly 100,000 deaths a year from unforced medical errors, the equivalent of a jumbo jet liner crashing and killing everyone aboard every day.”
Hospitals, physicians paying more attention to patient feedback. “Beyond these remedial efforts, it’s also encouraging to see the hospitalists start to figure out what comes next. In this case they are starting post-discharge phone calls to patients who have recently been sent home. It seems so obvious to me (and most patients) that this would be valued, but at least the hospitalists are beginning to catch on.”
Think eating disorders only affect teens? Think again. “Healthcare professionals are seeing a disturbing trend of children as young as age 5 developing eating disorders. While these eating disturbances often seem similar to theanorexia nervosa and bulimia, most commonly found in young teen girls, those occurring at a very young age often have other causes.”
The Healthcare Payments Industry Has a Perception Problem
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
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