What You Should Know:
- CareSimple and MetroHealth System announced that they have entered into a strategic remote patient monitoring integration partnership.
- Under the terms of
the agreement, CareSimple will empower the Cleveland, Ohio public health system
with simple, patient-friendly RPM solutions to improve health outcomes for
their high-risk senior and chronically ill populations.
The MetroHealth System, a nationally recognized public health care system located in
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clinical alerts
Leveraging Big Data for Real World Clinical Analytics
Recently, as the world has watched the coronavirus crisis unfold, the power of big data to track, illustrate, and inform has taken center stage. A compelling example is the near real-time map created by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) that shows all the cases as the disease spreads across the globe.
With far-reaching implications for healthcare, big data enables deep analysis of data from a myriad of sources – electronic medical records (EMRs), claims,
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SHIEC: HIEs Provide Critical Infrastructure to Support Nationwide Interoperability
America’s health information exchanges (HIEs) provide critical infrastructure to support interoperability serving 92% of Americans, delivering more than one billion clinical alerts annually, according to a recent Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative survey.These are real-time notifications of hospital admissions, discharges or transfers (ADTs) delivered to doctors, hospitals and other organizations tasked with coordinating the care and services of high-needs patients. These alerts
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Alert Fatigue: A Smarter Approach to Clinical Alarm Management
Thinking back to my time as a nurse on a busy telemetry unit, I can tell you how most days began. Clock in by 6:55 a.m. and throw my lunch in the fridge. Then, I check the assignment board, see who is in charge and how many patients I have. Next, I had to find the nurses who will report on my four to six patients, which usually includes a quick synopsis of any pertinent issues and the plan for the day.This sounds relatively easy. However, I am trying to accomplish these modest but critical goals
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KLAS Report: Cerner and Epic Most Widely Adopted Clinical Surveillance Tools
Cerner and Epic are the only vendors by KLAS validated as having extensive adoption of their clinical surveillance tools, according to a new KLAS report. For the report, KLAS conducted interviews with healthcare professionals for their insights on vendors providing clinical surveillance tools. KLAS validated that a wide number of clinical surveillance tools are currently in place and that provider organizations are using them for many different use cases; however, some vendors do not currently
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St Vincent’s Health Australia Deploys Vocera for Clinical Alerts & Communication
St Vincent’s Health Australia has officially deployed Vocera solutions for communication and clinical alerts across all its aged care facilities. St Vincent’s Health Australia is one of many organizations in the country using Vocera technology to improve care team communication, patient and resident experience, and operational efficiency. In 2017, Vocera added 35 aged care facilities in Australia to its client roster.Additionally, Vocera is steadily increasing deployments in public and private
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