HSBlox, a technology company that is bringing innovation and transparent economics to the healthcare ecosystem, today announced the launch of its Digital Sample Manager (DSM) solution, which leverages blockchain technology (distributed ledger technology or DLT) to bring improved visibility, transparency and tracking to the chain of custody in clinical trials. The solution provides end-to-end sample tracking and real-time status updates to all chain of custody entities.Advancing Clinical Trial
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Report: Understanding The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives
According to a new survey report from executive firm Witt/Kieffer, 79% of healthcare executives feel that burnout is negatively impacting their organization. In fact, 79% of healthcare executives believe that their organization is not doing enough to reduce or prevent executive burnout. The survey report, The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives surveyed close to 350 healthcare executives representing CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, Chief Nursing Officers and other executives at the C-suite, Vice
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Intermountain and MDClone Integrate to Transform Patient Data into Actionable Insights
Intermountain Healthcare, today announced it is teaming up with Israeli healthcare IT company MDClone to increase caregivers’ ability to transform patient data into information they can use to help people lead the healthiest lives possible. As part of the collaboration, MDClone will share a new approach to healthcare data access, analytics, and research with Intermountain. The new partnership will further transform its existing rich data sources into more meaningful information that will enable
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Clinical Secure Texting: Optimizing Care Coordination in Hospice Care
Playing phone tag and leaving voice mail is painfully inefficient. Thankfully, most of us can rely on e-mail and text messages to communicate with one another both personally and in business. In healthcare though, especially when at-risk hospice patients are involved, phone tag with a clinician is not only frustrating, but it can have life-threatening consequences.Consider this real-life scenario: Sue, a hospice nurse, went to check on Flo, a terminally ill cancer patient. Upon the initial
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Blockchain Technology: A Hopeful Secure Solution for Healthcare?
An electronic health record, or EHR, contains the patient’s name, date of birth, and social security number. It also contains the names of the patient’s employers, dependents, and more. Considering the increasing number of healthcare data breaches, blockchain technology that enables patient-mediated health data exchange provides a potential security solution opportunity.Infographic created by Duquesne University School of Nursing illustrates the promising potential of utilizing blockchain
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Taking New Medications: Consumers Blame Anxiety on Lack of Time with Physicians
More than half of consumers lack confidence in their ability to properly take new medications as directed, according to a survey released by DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions. Among the consumers who had concerns about taking new medications correctly, two-thirds blamed their anxiety on a lack of time with physicians at the point of care.Survey BackgroundThe online survey of 200 consumers was 40 percent male and 60 percent
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New Physician Burnout Initiative to Research 1 Million Physician Shift Hours in 2019
Pathology of Burnout Initiative led by Lightning Bolt aims to understand patterns in physician work schedules and burnout. Lightning Bolt Solutions, a provider of optimized physician shift technology announced they will work to identify the root cause of physician burnout by studying one million physician shift hours in 2019. The “Pathology of Burnout Initiative” starts with the simple act of asking physicians how they are doing. The data from this study will be key in determining how healthcare
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EBSCO Health Acquires Clinical Decision Support Tool HealthDecision
EBSCO Health, a provider of evidence-based clinical information tools has acquired HealthDecision, a decision support and shared decision-making tool for clinicians and patients. Founded in 2004, HealthDecision’s visual representation of medical outcomes is educational, easy-to-use and facilitates discussion between the clinician and patient to mutually agree on a personalized treatment plan.Developed by clinicians with subject matter expertise, HealthDecision integrates medical literature
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Patients are the New Payer: The New Dynamics of the Healthcare Economy
As consumers, we can use our smartphones to buy everything from airline tickets to groceries. In both cases, the products are delivered or confirmed almost immediately. Many of us instantly compare prices to see if we’re getting a good deal.This type of purchasing is not as seamless in healthcare. It can often be difficult to determine the exact cost of care prior to a procedure being done. There isn’t an easy way to compare the cost of medical procedures between healthcare organizations — which
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King’s Daughters Medical Center Implements MEDITECH’s Expanse Point of Care
MEDITECH's Expanse Point of Care software, the company's latest web-based, mobile technology for nurses and therapists to provide the best and most efficient patient-facing care, has been implemented at King's Daughters Medical Center (Brookhaven, MS). Accessible via a smartphone or a handheld mobile device, Expanse Point of Care features an optimized user interface for the company's Expanse Patient Care and Patient Safety solution.It has all the functionality needed to view charts, document,
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