Being a healthcare provider is both a rewarding and stressful occupation. Physicians can easily suffer from burnout. An alarming 42% of clinicians in the United States suffer from burnout, which can cause low work performance and negatively affect patient care. Burnout can also harm the provider-patient relationship and can result in diagnostic errors. What does [...]
The healthcare sector has become digitized which has its benefits of improved patient care and automation of workflows to improve efficiency levels. With more personal identifiable information stored in applications and cloud-based EMR software systems, there is always a risk of online attacks. In the age of digital technology solutions, it is critical that medical [...]
Epocrates is an athenahealth, Inc. company that provides digital clinical support to healthcare professionals. Epocrates recently announced the launch of Bugs + Drugs, which is a mobile tool that offers information to clinicians regarding different bacteria types and antibacterial susceptibility patterns by location. How will the new mobile app help both patients and clinicians? There [...]
MEDITECH Expanse EHR Software Implementation at Southern Ohio Medical Center resulted in enhancing C. difficile testing process leading to quick disease detection and a reduction in canceled tests. Benefits of MEDITECH Expanse EMR software implementation The medical center implemented new Expanse workflows and tools solutions earlier this year. The hospital has realized a 30% relative [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused healthcare organizations to embrace remote care models to ensure patients receive prompt care without having to visit the provider’s clinic. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology makes it possible to monitor a patient’s condition without an in-office visit. How does remote patient monitoring work? Remote patient monitoring tools leverage technology to [...]
Robotic assistant Moxi will help nurses at ChristinaCare to deliver supplies efficiently to the patient room. The aim of using the collaborative robot EHR Software integration or ‘cobot’ is to alleviate nurse burnout. How can the collaborative robot help nursing staff? The cobot can work with the nursing staff and even interact with them. They [...]
To enhance patient care and progress in the internal medicine subspecialty of rheumatology, The Section of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology at Yale School of Medicine announced to join Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE). RISE contains powerful patient data sources to help clinicians offer high-quality patient care and create new research opportunities. What is Rheumatology [...]
VA Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHR) system went down for four hours mainly due to a patient database corruption issue according to a report from FedScoop. Cerner Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software outage was experienced on Thursday the 4th of August, affecting users across the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Coast Guard. The outage [...]
EMR software implementation is essential to streamline daily clinical, administrative, and, financial workflows. Hospitals and healthcare organizations have leveraged the robust software solution to improve patient care and drive practice efficiencies. Valley Health System carries out Epic EMR software for flexibility According to a report from Northern Virginia Daily, Valley Health System is set to [...]
Electronic Health Records Software-based card studies can simplify data collection and improve point-of-care research and analysis according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine. Card studies help to collect data at the point of care, these short surveys are leveraged to collect descriptive data. Card studies are traditionally completed by physicians on physical [...]