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A (Global) Cornucopia Of Clues To Optimize Medication Use
The most common patient care intervention, issuing a prescription, is fraught with continuing challenges for patients, their caregivers, and practitioners. Patients rely on medications across a continuum of care, with expectations for self-management; some experience unintended problems along the way. For older patients, such problems often result in emergency hospitalizations, many of which could be prevented. Historically, integration to support safe and appropriate medicine use across the U.S. health care ecosystem has been sporadic, including within our siloed Medicare Part D benefit. Other countries, however, are well...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: N. Lee Rucker, Michael Holden, Parisa Aslani, and Rana Ahmed Tags: All Categories Global Health Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Pharma Policy Public Health Source Type: blogs

Kaiser Health News/Philadelphia Inquirer on InformaticsMD: "The flaws of electronic records"
At my Dec. 2012 post "How an interview for Kaiser Health News rekindled memories of health IT dysfunction in the 90's that persist in the 10's" I mentioned an interview by a reporter from the Kaiser Health Foundation interviewed me regarding health IT flaws.His article appeared in both the Philadelphia Inquirer and Kaiser Health News today under the title "The flaws of electronic records":Philadelphia Inquirer / Kaiser Health NewsFeb. 18, 2013Jay Hancock, KAISER HEALTH NEWSThe flaws of electronic recordsDrexel University's Scot Silverstein is a leading critic of the rapid switch to computerized medical charts, saying the n...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Richard Cook Philadelphia Inquirer healthcare IT risk ross koppel David Blumenthal Kaiser Family Foundation Kaiser Health News george lundberg ONC matthew holt Jay Hancock IOM Source Type: blogs