Phoenix Children’s teamed up with Medicomp to refine the clinical documentation process
The hospital said its implementation of Medicomp's Quippe clinical documentation system has helped it improve patient outcomes and boost clinician productivity.
The hospital said its implementation of Medicomp's Quippe clinical documentation system has helped it improve patient outcomes and boost clinician productivity.
Most of the digital health companies in the latest cohort have business-to-business payment models across clinical decision support and physician practice management.
To help their patients better remember bits of information, more and more doctors are, with their patients' consent, recording appointments.
Adams Street Partners led the round, with participation from existing strategic investors including Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners, Sandbox Industries and social impact fund SJF Ventures
Theranos has settled with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and agreed to reimburse all Arizona residents that purchased its beleaguered blood tests. It sounds like a good start to the week, but a bigger challenge looms.
Banner Health learned old assumptions must be put aside to develop a patient-centered telehealth program by harnessing home monitoring devices, tablets for video consults, all integrated and powered on Philips Healthcare's software.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
Orb Health takes a more physician-driven approach while PadInMotion's platform is driven by patients.
"We see some pretty big failure rates around project management," Melissa Swanfeldt of EHR vendor Meditech. She spoke at CHIME last week.
John Jacobs, co-founder and chief creative optimist of apparel company Life is Good, closed out CHIME16 with an uplifting message for healthcare CIOs. Across the hall, an FBI cybersecurity expert gave a stern warning.
"Every time we have a breach, we should think of it as a quality issue," Federal CIO Tony Scott said at the CHIME Fall CIO Summit in Phoenix.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Since HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minnesota, became the first health system in the state to go live with EPCS two years ago, clinicians have saved an aggregate of about 500 hours per month in time spent writing prescriptions for controlled drugs, CHIME attendees heard Wednesday.
This incident doesn't seem to have targeted only patient records. Instead, at least one hack hit food and beverage stations at Banner facilities in four states.
According to the suit, filed as a class action, a man suffered a heart attack less than a month after a Theranos blood test showed "clear" blood-sugar and lipid levels.
Solera added social impact fund SJF Ventures to its investors. BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and Sandbox Industries also took part in the round.
Banner’s iCare telehealth model saved an estimated 1,890 lives and $109 million, according to a case study presented Monday.