Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Medtronic posts uptick for Q3, bolstered by strong CV sales

Medtronic has reported positive financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, which ended Jan. 29.

Clinical Decision Support and the Chain of Liabilities

Thursday, March 4, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Recent health IT initiatives require the use of clinical decision support. CDS implementations vary, but current liability language excludes all parties except the user. The expansion of CDS will expand user liability.

Getting Clinical Decision Support Right: Best Practices and Perspectives from Quality Leaders and ON

Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PMCDS is an essential component of driving improved healthcare outcomes. ARRA, and its requirements for meaningful EHR use, further accentuates the importance of 'getting CDS right.' The session builds on HIMSS' rich history in providing its membership and the industry with valuable insights into critical factors for CDS success via books, collaboratives educational sessions and the like.

Usable, Meaningful CDS for Improved Quality: National Activities, New Advances

Tuesday, March 2, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Discover next-generation, workflow-sensitive, knowledge-delivery tools that can significantly impact quality, safety and clinician/patient satisfaction. Learn about national government and industry programs supporting usable, implementable and shareable clinical decision support for national quality guidelines.

Clinical Decision Support with EHRs

Tuesday, March 2, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Come and learn how one practice is able to use EHR data to support clinical decisions. This workshop will show how to use the EHR as a tool to improve practice workflow.

Implementing a Clinical Decision Intelligence System in an Integrated Healthcare System

Tuesday, March 2, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM A Clinical Decision Intelligence System is an enterprise-wide data warehouse created to identify trends, interrelate disparate types of information (clinical, financial and eligibility), and support data-driven clinical and operational decision-making throughout the Geisinger Health System.

Quality Measures and Clinical Decision Support in EHRs

Monday, March 1, 1:15 PM - 1:30 PMCosponsor: HIMSS EHR Association

Practical Pearls for Improving Outcomes with CDS: A Roundtable Discussion

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM This interactive conversation among participants is designed to elicit specific, major challenges and successes experienced in the effort to improve outcomes with CDS, and thread together themes and pearls. The goal is for each attendee to leave the session with specific, actionable lessons from the interchange that will be valuable in their CDS efforts.

Around the web

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.

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