Pathologists at Dartmouth-Hitchcock are looking to curb the use of unnecessary blood transfusions for non-bleeding patients by adding a “best-practice alert” in the patient’s EMR, with the hope of reducing risk of complications and costs. “We figured out how to harness the power of the electronic medical record to embed evidence-based transfusion criteria into the […]
When you hear about blood shortages, that doesn’t just mean there’s a shortage of donated red blood cells. It could also mean platelets, a blood component that Sven Karlsson described as Band-Aids of the bloodstream, because they’re necessary for blood clot formation to help stop bleeding. Karlsson is a co-founder and chief financial officer of […]
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.