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This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...
Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...
Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...
Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...
The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...
This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...
This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...
Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...
Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...
A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...
The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...
Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...
For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...
The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...
The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...
The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The Problem Norwalk Hospital was an early developer and user of health information technology. I...
The Problem DMC wanted to chart a new path for fulfilling its mission of offering the best possi...
The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...
The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...
This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.
