VA hospitals and clinicians face challenges not present in commercial hospitals, which is that they provide Veterans with 100 percent of care services throughout their lifetimes. With a focus on the full continuum of care, this includes specialty care at VA clinics for chronic conditions, acute hospital admissions and/or ER visits, all prescriptions filled at VA pharmacies, and end-of-life care in a VA community living centers/nursing homes. In VISN4, there are nine VA Medical Centers serving
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Cedars-Sinai Named Coordinating Center for Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network
Patrick Lyden, MD, is leading a National Institutes of Health study about strokesQuick Glance- Cedars-Sinai named the coordinating center for the multicenter stroke research program- First-of-Its-Kind Program Will Help Doctors Analyze Several New Potential Stroke TreatmentsCedars-Sinai has been named the coordinating center for a multicenter stroke research program that will be the first of its kind in the U.S. Named the Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN) will assess the effectiveness
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4 Ways Health IT Can Improve Patient Engagement & Cost Transparency
Imagine having to make a large purchase, but not having any insight into how much it will cost or if you will be able to access it after you have purchased it. Most consumers wouldn’t make an investment like that; they would demand information into where their money is going and what they would be bringing home with them. But as patients, this is a scenario that can be all too familiar: we aren’t sure what we’re going to have to pay and then don’t have much if any, understandable information to
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Report: E-Prescription Accuracy Has Increased by 64% Since 2016
As an industry, moving to electronic prescribing has changed the way clinicians, pharmacists and patients communicate about drug therapies. New data released today from Surescripts reports that e-prescription accuracy has increased by 64% since 2016. Thanks to this improvement, the handwritten doctor’s note that was often illegible or lost in transit is now a secure, digital transaction.Despite Growth, Challenges RemainsE-prescribing changed the way patients, prescribers and pharmacists
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EMR Integration Is Key to Success for Drug Diversion Monitoring, KLAS Report Finds
EMR integration dramatically improves customer success with drug diversion monitoring solutions, according to a new KLAS Report. The new report reveals that EMR integration with drug diversion monitoring enables analytics tools to compare drug-use data from the eMAR, not just pharmacy systems. This integration closes the loop on the full medication administration process, improving accuracy, and creating a more complete picture for investigation.State of Drug Diversion Monitoring Solutions in
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Only 11% of Acute-Care Providers Use An Integrated EHR, Study Finds
Only 11 percent of acute care providers use an integrated electronic health record (EHR), according to PointClickCare’s results of its 2019 Patient Transition Study. The study reveals that acute care and long-term post-acute care patient coordination remains largely manual through paper, email, and fax processes.Conducted in partnership with Definitive Healthcare, c-suite executives from acute and post-acute care facilities provided input on data sharing, concerns about interoperability, and
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KLAS: Epic, Cerner, Lack Integration for Medication Inventory Management
Pharmacy and EMR vendors Cerner and Epic all have gaps in their ability to provide enterprise medication inventory management (MIM) capabilities, resulting in lower consideration rates in MIM purchase decisions, according to the latest KLAS report. The KLAS report, “Medication Inventory Management 2019: How Close Is Your Vendor to Enabling True Enterprise MIM,” reveals Cerner and Epic’s MIM software ability to serve as an agnostic solution to manage inventory across disparate hardware is not a
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Why Real-Time Health Data Is a Requirement in Today’s Health System
Thanks to technological innovation in the industry and CMS’ push for interoperability, today there’s more patient health data being collected than ever before. The problem is that the data is either not easily accessible to providers or it’s claims based and therefore not timely. The lag time between the collection and sharing of health data makes it difficult, and in some cases impossible, for providers to get a complete picture of their patients’ health, to appropriately treat ongoing
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6 Ways Hospitals Can Benefit From E-Procurement Portals
With regard to the increased complexity of healthcare procurement and the importance of sound supply chain control for ensuring a truly patient-centered approach, experts keep calling the hospitals to introduce advanced technologies for effective management of healthcare procurement and supplies.
Procurement portals, as one of those, already greatly add to the effectiveness of purchasing across various retail and manufacturing companies allowing for simplified and optimized management of
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NYC Health + Hospitals Launches Primary Care-Centered Diabetes Management Program
NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the nation announced the launch of a comprehensive, primary care-centered diabetes management program. The diabetes management program includes investing in new clinical pharmacy staff, equipment, and technology to improve health outcomes and expand services through telehealth techniques for more than 60,000 New Yorkers with diabetes who receive care in the City’s public hospitals and community-based health centers.Impact of
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