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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Patient Alerts
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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WISHIN, PatientPing Partners to Advance Care Coordination Throughout Wisconsin
Today, PatientPing and WISHIN announced their partnership to improve the health of countless lives in Wisconsin by bolstering its care coordination efforts across the network with real-time patient notifications and additional context. WISHIN, which stands for the Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, is the state’s designated entity for healthcare information exchange (HIE). Using PatientPing’s lightweight care coordination technology, WISHIN is improving upon the existing network of
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