While clinical collaboration platforms have already made a significant impact, there is still much work to be done to ensure that every hospital has the tools and protocols in place to respond to sepsis with the urgency it demands.
Organizations are delivering digital experiences and content to HCPs on a much larger scale than was previously possible. Integrating digital tools will advance things even further and help marketers and MLR teams maintain brand consistency and ensure compliance across digital and content operations.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Whether creating a health application or platform-based solutions, the effectiveness of innovation in healthtech relies not only on scientifically backed up technology, but more on consumer-driven design, highlighting the need for precision and efficiency.
Medical device companies that leverage today’s technology to better share and track product and safety information will outpace rivals and gain a competitive edge. They will be the innovators that can solve problems faster and streamline their workflows for optimal efficiency.
Health plans can reduce late payment interest by up to 25% year over year by focusing on three critical areas.
Many medtech products, very often too technical and scientific, emphasize features at the expense of processes and their interactions. While the approach to patient and treatment safety is crucial, there is a notable shift towards processes centered around patients and healthcare professionals.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
McKesson discussed Conserus at last week's RSNA conference in Chicago.
"We see some pretty big failure rates around project management," Melissa Swanfeldt of EHR vendor Meditech. She spoke at CHIME last week.
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.
"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.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
IT helped enable Lean methodology at Health First, a four-hospital IDN with a health plan in Brevard County, Florida.
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.
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.
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.
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.