How Technology Helped My Family Receive a Better Healthcare Experience
The following is a guest blog post by Brittany Quemby, Marketing Strategist for Stericycle Communication Solutions, as part of the Communication Solutions Series of blog posts. Follow and engage with them on Twitter: @StericycleComms
When was the last time you had a truly outstanding patient experience? For my family, two healthcare facilities located hours apart recently teamed up to make our lives significantly more convenient. Without modern technology, however, our new reality may never have been possible. Let’s start from the beginning.
A few years ago, my family member suffered a heart attack that caused a traumat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Care Management System Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare Communication HealthCare IT mHealth Patients Brittany Quemby Communication Solutions Series Health Care Communications Healthcare Personalization Patient Communication Pat Source Type: blogs
More Ways AI Can Transform Healthcare
You’ve probably already heard a lot about how AI will change healthcare. Me too. Still, given its potential, I’m always interested in hearing more, and the following article struck me as offering some worthwhile ideas.
The article, which was written by Humberto Alexander Lee of Tesser Health, looks at ways in which AI tools can reduce data complexity and detect patterns which would be difficult or even impossible for humans to detect.
His list of AI’s transformative powers includes the following:
Identifying diseases and providing diagnoses
AI algorithms can predict when people are likely to develop heart disease f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 25, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Clinical Decision Support Digital Health EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Fitness Trackers Google Healthcare Healthcare AI Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT mHealth Mobile Health Care Patient P Source Type: blogs
Can Amazon, Chase, and Berkshire Help Medical Malpractice Victims?
By MINDY NUNEZ DUFFOURC
A New Era of Amazon Healthcare Should Take a Cue From Germany to Provide Support for Medical Malpractice Victims
Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway recently announced plans to form a joint non-profit enterprise aimed at providing affordable, high-quality, transparent healthcare to hundreds of thousands of their U.S. employees. Although a healthcare venture departs from their prior expertise, the companies’ combined wealth, resources, and history of market innovation provide hope that this new alliance can reshape the delivery and cost of healthcare in the U.S. As Amazon and company at...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 3, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
First FDA Clearance for Software to 3D Print Patient Specific Anatomical Models
Materialise, a company specializing in 3D printing based in Belgium but with offices around the world, won FDA clearance for its Mimics inPrint software to be used for 3D printing of anatomical models for diagnostic applications. The software allows hospitals to print one-to-one reproductions of individual patient anatomy, thereby helping surgeons to understand the unique nature of difficult cases. This is the first such clearance issued by the FDA.
The regulatory clearance is a consequence of FDA’s classification of software used for patient-specific 3D printing of anatomical models as a class II medical device, wh...
Source: Medgadget - April 2, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
NQF Issues Guidance on Opioid Prescribing Practices
The National Qualify Forum (NQF) recently released new guidelines to support safe and appropriate opioid prescribing to manage patients’ pain, entitled “National Quality Partners Playbook: Opioid Stewardship.” This marks the latest in the growing number of organizations providing input on strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic and helping to shape potential policy changes and federal and state level investments under consideration.
Developed with input from over forty experts and national stakeholders from the public and private sectors, the guidance identifies...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 23, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Learning to Listen
By ROSS KOPPEL
Every physician is taught to listen to patients. Every physician acknowledges it’s an essential skill. Yet, study after study shows physicians interrupt their patients within a few seconds of their patients’ oral presentation of their problem(s). The author, Prof. Terry Hannan, MD, teaches us to shut up for a few minutes. If we do so, medical care will be safer, more efficient, kinder, and patients will help clinicians be better healers.
This book convincingly demonstrates the value of listening to patients; of discovering what is missing or wrong in the chart, of understanding the real etiology, and of ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Bedside Stories Learning to Listen Doctor-Patient Communication Terry Hannan Source Type: blogs
3 medical student tips to improve patient communication
Medical school rotations afforded me incredible opportunities to bolster not only my knowledge base but also my patient-related skills. The following information has helped me provide better patient care; hopefully, it can be of some benefit to you as well.
1. Safety and no violence are not synonymous
During one of my outpatient rotations, I was interviewing a teenager who had come in for a routine annual checkup. Ten minutes into the appointment, a knock on the door signaled that it was time for me to leave to present the patient’s case to my resident.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to re...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/subha-mohan" rel="tag" > Subha Mohan < /a > Tags: Education Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Predicting the Top Patient Engagement Themes of #HIMSS18
Conclusion
As the industry goes forward to improve upon strategic patient experience improvement, research from PwC suggests that the solution is systemic: 73 percent of provider executives say balancing patient satisfaction and employee job satisfaction is a barrier to efforts to improve the patient experience. But with the right technology-based tools and human support, this barrier can be lifted, helping eliminate employee hardships and improve the patient experience by delivering on each of the above trends.
If you’re going to be at HIMSS18, come and stop by the Stericycle Communications Solutions booth #859 to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 12, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Care Management System Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare Communication HealthCare IT mHealth Patients Brittany Quemby Communication Solutions Series Health Care Communications Healthcare Personalization Patient Communication Pat Source Type: blogs
9th Annual New Media Meetup During #HIMSS18 Sponsored by CareCognitics
For those of you planning to attend the HIMSS 2018 conference in Las Vegas, I’m excited to share the details of the 9th Annual New Media Meetup at HIMSS. For those who’ve missed the last 8 events, it’s a unique meetup that brings together healthcare IT bloggers, media professionals, tweeters, and other social media influencers at the mecca of Healthcare IT conferences.
We’re excited to continue in our 9th year the tradition of bringing together some of the most influential people in healthcare IT in one space. While social media continues to change, what hasn’t changed is how many incredible c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 25, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare HealthCare IT #HITSM CareCognitics Healthcare IT Expo HIMSS HIMSS Las Vegas HIMSS New Media Meetup HIMSS18 Source Type: blogs
Using WhatsApp to improve Doctor patient communication.
WhatsApp is one of those apps which practically every doctor uses routinely in India. Most doctors use it for personal reasons , and many have also started utilising it to connect with their patients as well. Unfortunately, they do it in a disorganized and haphazard fashion, which means they are not making the best possible use of this very versatile platform !Here's one way of making sure that WhatsApp can be used effectively to help improve medical care.The doctor needs a dedicated mobile just for his clinic, which is used exclusively for this purpose , so he doesn't get troubled at all odd hours because of patients cont...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - January 18, 2018 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
How to Tell Grandpa He Is Too Old for Another Colonoscopy
Shutterstock Cancer screening can save lives: Mammographies reduce the chance women will die of breast cancer; and colonoscopies reduce the chance people will die of colon cancer. But should my 93-year-old father receive a screening colonoscopy? The test is uncomfortable, … Continue reading →
The post How to Tell Grandpa He Is Too Old for Another Colonoscopy appeared first on PeterUbel.com. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 16, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peter Ubel Tags: Health Care cancer screening Doctor patient communication Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
EHR, Patient Portals and OpenNotes: Making OpenNotes Work Well – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Homer Chin (@chinhom) and Amy Fellows (@afellowsamy) from (@MyOpenNotes) on the topic of “EHR, Patient Portals and OpenNotes: Making OpenNotes Work Well.”
There are now nearly 100 health systems across the United States using secure patient portals to share visit notes with more than 20 million of their patients. And as the saying goes, if you’ve seen one OpenNotes implementation, you’ve seen one OpenNotes implementation.
No two health systems approach O...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 5, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Digital Health EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT Healthcare Social Media #HITsm Topics Amy Fellows Homer Chin Open Notes Source Type: blogs
Hypertension Control Champions
EvidenceNow is an initiative from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with the goal of improving heart health by helping small and medium sized practices use the most recent heart health evidence. The Primary goal of EvidenceNow is to improve the heart health related care at more than 1,500 primary care practices in the United States with the hope that every practice will achieve a national target of 70% of patients following the ABCs of heart health prevention. The ABCs of heart health prevention include aspirin use, blood pressure control, cholesterol management and smoking cessation.
Five primary care ...
Source: BHIC - November 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Where Patient Communications Fall Short?
The following is a guest blog post by Sarah Bennight, Marketing Strategist for Stericycle Communication Solutions, as part of the Communication Solutions Series of blog posts. Follow and engage with them on Twitter: @StericycleComms
We are constantly switching devices to engage in our daily lives. In fact, in the last ten minutes I have searched a website on my desktop computer, answered a phone call, and checked several text messages and emails on my cellphone. Our ability to seamlessly jump from one device to the next affects our consumer behavior when interacting with places of business.
Today, we can order coffee and g...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Care Management System Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare Communication HealthCare IT mHealth Patients Communication Solutions Series Health Care Communications Patient Communication Patient Experience Sarah Bennight Stericycle Source Type: blogs
Health 2.0 Fall Conference Startup Pitch Competition: Meet the Companies
This week, healthcare technology innovators, thought leaders, and business owners convene in Santa Clara, California for Health 2.0’s 11th Annual Fall Conference. While this year’s event runs from October 2-4, Medgadget was able to participate in the Sunday pre-conference and the annual Startup Pitch Competition.
Evaluating eight “Series A ready” companies, organized into professional solution (B2B) and consumer solution (B2C) tracks, were six judges. The diverse panel of judges included:
Anya Schiess from Healthy Ventures
Caroline Arenz from Healthbox
Alexander Hoffman from Merck Ventures
Gwyn ...
Source: Medgadget - October 3, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
