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 [...]
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is being leveraged by the healthcare industry to streamline tasks, enhance the customer experience and even reduce costs. RPA eliminates human error and helps staff members focus on other important tasks. Automation has taken over the healthcare sector and many healthcare organizations and hospitals make use of a Revenue Cycle Management [...]
According to a viewpoint published in JAMA Network Open, health IT vendors and health system leaders must collaborate to enhance Electronic Health Records (EHR) software functionality and combat clinician burnout. By leveraging EMR software solutions patient care can be supported and the efficiency of healthcare providers can also go up. The robust software technology helps [...]