Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Leveraging EMR Data to Develop Disease-Based Registries

Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Disease-based registries are effective tools, especially in conjunction with electronic medical records. The presenters will use actual registries to illustrate a multidisciplinary implementation approach. Challenges and opportunities posed by an EMR will be highlighted.

An Evidence-Based Approach to Activating CPOE and Clinical Documentation

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM This presentation will review key considerations for computerized practitioner order entry and clinical documentation activation strategies, and share the results of a survey of 20 hospitals representing four major vendors.

Adoption and Meaningful Use of EHR Technology in a Hospital

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM This session will discusses the challenges and strategies that led a year-long project at a community teaching hospital to reach the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6.

Eight Rights of EHR-Based Safe Care

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM President Obama has often referred to electronic health records as a solution to reduce medical errors. To achieve this goal, we propose the "Eight Rights of EHR-Based Safe Care."

ARRA and EMR Usability: What Providers Need to Know

Monday, March 1, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PMWhat if U.S. healthcare providers dramatically adopted EMRs in increasing numbers, worked hard to achieve meaningful use, but never benefited financially or in efficiency or quality? Meaningful use will be dependent on adequate EMR usability. Discover how usability relates to a number of meaningful use criteria. We offer a usability checklist to assist providers in shopping for a new EMR, or to use during implementation of an existing EMR, in order to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and usefulness.

How Improving EHR Stability, Satisfaction and Performance Saved My Job!

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSenior Executive Synergy Session: How Improving EHR Stability, Satisfaction and Performance Saved My Job! The CIO of New Hanover Regional Medical Center reveals Project "S," the IT Service Management initiative that the organization employed to improve the EHR end-user experience.

Georgia's Health Connect Program: A State-wide EHR Implementation

Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The State of Georgia's Department of Community Health is leading a strategic initiative to design, develop and implement a statewide EHR system and health information exchange for Georgia's Medicaid population.

Recognizing the Best of the Best: Nursing's Key Role in EMR Implementation

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AMNursing Informatics Synergy Session: Recognizing the Best of the Best: Nursing's Key Role in EMR ImplementationHear this Davies Award winning organization's nurse leader discuss nursing's role in contributing to the overall successful planning, implementation and evaluation of their EMR system. You will also learn nursing's role in quality and outcomes measures and the implications for the future.

Around the web

Compensation for heart specialists continues to climb. What does this say about cardiology as a whole? Could private equity's rising influence bring about change? We spoke to MedAxiom CEO Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, a veteran cardiologist himself, to learn more.

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”