By Katie Brenneman – The healthcare landscape encompasses a varied range of professionals, each playing an essential role in the quality of patient care and the success of a business. It’s important to recognize that the efficacy of staff is reliant on good communication and collaboration.
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By Matt Fisher – Announced merger of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger through the creation of a new non-profit parent entity ostensibly focused on value based care. The merger, which is still only announced, will bring together two prominent players in the integrated network space.
By Patrick Cronin – Cancer is a condition that’s affected most people in one way or another, and finding ways to treat it has been the focus of the world’s top scientists and oncologists for decades. Researchers are making major breakthroughs using the power of data science.
By Devin Partida – IT professionals in every sector have a duty to accelerate technological innovation. Medtech is a unique industry rife with outdated tools while being the most desperate for advancement to meet a growing population’s increasingly complex health needs.
By Weston Blakeslee PhD – A newly published joint study, “Use of complete medication history to identify and correct transitions-of-care medication errors at psychiatric hospital admission,” was authored by clinicians and pharmacists from McLean Hospital with members of DrFirst’s Applied Clinical Research team.
By Uday Birajdar – Healthcare businesses are increasingly leveraging intelligent automation to streamline and strengthen their processes. Healthcare providers can fully automate complicated operations by combining Robotic Process Automation with Artificial Intelligence, improving customer satisfaction and allowing caregivers to focus on their patients.
By Rahul Sharma – Healthcare is continuing to accelerate its path to value-based care models where pay-for-value programs are supplanting the traditional volume-based fee-for-service system. However, VBC is not a miracle payment model that can automatically transform a healthcare organization, never mind an entire industry.
By Marc P. DiFazio MD – Clinician to Patient communication is critically important to facilitate the best of medical outcomes. Communication starts at the bedside or in the clinic but must continue beyond these venues to ensure safe transitions, medication compliance and to provide feedback and guidance during medical management.
By Alena Nikuliak – Healthcare providers can now add remote cardiac monitoring to their repertoire. Recent advances in RCM has offered a new way for providers to manage the health of patients with heart conditions.