Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Fact 1: As per the latest data made available by the Office for Civil Rights for HHS, more than 208,000 privacy-related complaints have been made in the last 16 years. Fact 2: If a hospital makes a call to a patient to remind them of their upcoming appointment, they might receive a class action complaint
[ Read More ]How do electronic health records improve patient care? Click here and find out how and why electronic health records and online billing is used. About 80.5 percent of hospitals use a basic system for electronic health records. Are medical care facilities using these systems to get all the benefits? There are ways to get the most out
[ Read More ]According to the recent Health IT Outlook survey, almost one-third of health IT leaders deem ineffective EHR operations as their biggest hurdle. At many hospitals across the country, the HIT help desk is considered an afterthought used for the occasional password reset. When healthcare leaders maximize their help desk to deliver EHR-specific education and issue
[ Read More ]The medical industry thrives on foundations of complete service, commitment and determination of professionals. These doctors, physicians, and nurses are committed to service of the sick and needy. For some don’t have hope and the only ray of light they can find is a doctor’s advice. Our healthcare system strives for better service for everyone
[ Read More ]With technology being more prominent within society and changing the way we approach healthcare, there’s plenty of technology that can help with looking after our health. Here are a few examples of how we’re using it. Home Equipment Although blood pressure devices used at home are frowned upon by professionals for providing inaccurate results, there
[ Read More ]In 2018, a New York man died of cancer in conditions which were far from unique. The man wasn’t able to decipher when his cancer symptoms first appeared, because allegedly, his EHR did not accurately display his medical history on progress notes. The patient had a suspicion that the integrity of his medical records was
[ Read More ]Healthcare has seen a number of life-saving breakthroughs: vaccines, anaesthesia, bypass surgery, the balloon catheter, and even decoding the human genome sequence. These have all changed the face of healthcare, transforming how we do things around here. But there’s one breakthrough which we have known is coming for a long time now. That breakthrough is
[ Read More ]The medical industry has always had a strong incentive to increase efficiency by incorporating new technology into care. Improving efficiency reduces operating costs as well as errors, and increases positive outcomes. It makes sense that information technologies (IT), with their almost limitless potential to streamline processes at all levels of care, have been readily embraced
[ Read More ]Experts agree, getting an extra 60-90 minutes of sleep per night can help Americans feel happier and healthier. Throughout much of society, sleep was hardly seen as a key component to human health, but as more technology developments lead to new discoveries about how/why we sleep, it’s now more clear than ever just how vital it
[ Read More ]Late last year it was announced that the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) was implementing a plan to phase out fax machines and replace them with digital alternatives by 2020. The key drivers behind this change were improving patient privacy and cybersecurity, both of which are major concerns for the healthcare industry as a whole.
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