Meet Conserus, McKesson’s imaging line for value-based care
McKesson discussed Conserus at last week's RSNA conference in Chicago.
Workflow remains the key to health IT project success
"We see some pretty big failure rates around project management," Melissa Swanfeldt of EHR vendor Meditech. She spoke at CHIME last week.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Children’s National looks to commercialize innovations from Bear Institute
With the help of electronic health records vendor Cerner, Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Health System is preparing to commercialize some of its projects from the Bear Institute.
Like Salesforce and others, SAP wants to take on healthcare
"The electronic medical record is a disaster," SAP CEO Bill McDermott said in a meeting with financial analysts this week. He knows from personal experience.
Florida’s Health First streamlines patient flow with Lean management
IT helped enable Lean methodology at Health First, a four-hospital IDN with a health plan in Brevard County, Florida.
Emory Healthcare cuts clicks by optimizing EHR workflow
The results of Emory's workflow redesign have been impressive. The Atlanta academic health system reported cutting the number of clicks physicians had to go through in the Cerner EHR by a third.
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Study: PAs, NPs do more e-prescribing in pediatric ED
Perhaps it's workflow, perhaps it's culture, perhaps it's just the nature of the setting, but physician assistants and nurse practitioners have been ?e-prescribing? ?at a higher rate than physicians in the ED of Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C.
IT, culture helps reborn L.A. hospital shed ‘Killer King’ past
Five years in the making, the new MLK Community Hospital is spending upwards of $70 million on IT and is trying to instill a culture of accountability and safety.
In health IT, workflow and integration matter
Data must be easy to access because there will be little compliance with quality-improvement activities if physicians have to log into more than one system and click through multiple screens to find relevant clinical data on their patients, said Health Fidelity CEO Steve Whitehurst.
Health IT tweet chat examines patient experience
There's been plenty of talk about patient-centeredness in healthcare, but the experience too often remains provider-centric. For an hour on Friday at least, the focus of the weekly health IT social media tweet chat (#HITsm) was squarely on the patient.
Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
How hospitals are applying car production insights to workflow, supply management
Private hospitals in places like Seattle and Wisconsin started using Toyota’s system a decade or more ago. But it's a newer idea for safety net hospitals.