Healthcare providers and patients are often in the dark regarding the cost of prescription drugs. That’s more than a simple inconvenience—it also affects whether patients adhere to their treatment plans when they discover that prescribed medications are too costly. Many physicians choose an appropriate medication during an office or telehealth visit, hit the send button, […]
Healthcare leaders don’t often talk about interoperability's dirty secret: Despite decades of digitization and standards, we still have a problem with dirty data. That means a great deal of digital information still gets touched by human hands before it can be consumed by hospital or pharmacy systems. This is more than an inconvenience, Manually entering information […]
In a time of EHRs, e-prescribing, and cloud-based storage, patient medication history is not always available in clinical workflows. Fractured data from multiple sources, inconsistent terminology between systems, and time-consuming manual entries hinder medication reconciliation. Providers are frustrated, patients are at risk of preventable adverse drug events (ADEs), and hospitals are responsible for readmissions. Problems […]
Imagine you’re hungry and craving pizza. You go to your favorite Italian restaurant, but instead of serving you a hot, delicious slice, they give you the crust, the cheese, and the sauce separately, so you have to manually assemble the ingredients yourself. That’s how it feels to physicians when patient medication history arrives in the […]
Technologies from NVIDIA and Artisight Power Sirius Healthcare’s Patient Room ‘Next’ Imagine a healthcare environment where smart, IoT-connected platforms allow clinicians to focus on patient care. Leaders could focus on productivity. Staff would be enable by flexible technologies that function consistently, regardless of location or room configuration. Sensors would provide data directly to EHRs. Intuitive […]
Health system leaders can enable greater agility and scalability for their Epic EHR, while also maintaining its performance, by developing a cloud strategy tailored around the use of the hybrid cloud. Today’s Challenges Epic EHR changes at a rapid pace due to necessary upgrades required to keep up with the rapid changes in healthcare. Many times, […]
Health IT Trends to Watch in 2022 The rise of new virtual care, remote work, and high-tech solutions that began in 2020 continued on in 2021, making it another landmark year for health IT adoption and innovation. The 24 months of rapid change has incentivized healthcare leaders to try and align with health IT trends […]
Fighting Clinician Burnout at the Intersection of Technology and Health IT Initiatives Preventing clinician burnout is an integral part of fostering long-term health system success. But even before COVID-19 hit, healthcare workers struggled against burnout, and the pandemic has only worsened the problem. According to a Mental Health America (MHA) survey of 1,119 healthcare workers […]
Experts Explain How to Navigate the Healthcare Cybersecurity Landscape for a Safer Future October may be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but the 2021 cybersecurity landscape has health IT leaders need to be wary of cyber threats every minute of every day. This Week in Health IT founder and host Bill Russell first likened the healthcare […]
Get the rundown for every This Week Health show into your inbox, including episode highlights and summaries that will keep you updated on industry news, trends, and conversations.
Subscribe
© Copyright 2024 Health Lyrics All rights reserved
