by Brenda Hopkins RN | Dec 31, 2019 | Digital Health
It is day nine of our 12 Days of Christmas Posts and we rounded up these 9 ladies in health IT. The debate still continues if 2019 is the “Year of the Woman”. The fight continues for equal pay and equal access. The dialogue continues on #metoo and...
by Brenda Hopkins | Jan 1, 2019 | Nurses
BY JANE SARASOHN-KAHN ON 28 DECEMBER 2018 IN CONSUMER EXPERIENCE, DOCTORS, HEALTH CONSUMERS, HEALTH POLITICS, HEALTH RATINGS AND REPORT CARDS, NURSES, PHARMACY, PHYSICIANS, POPULAR CULTURE AND HEALTH, TRUST Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth...
by Brenda Hopkins | Jul 21, 2018 | Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Design, Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare IT, Informatics, Mobility, outcomes
In the history of healthcare information technology, there is clear evidence that technology systems have been designed to provide individual solutions, instead of considering a provider’s workflow holistically. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, practice management...
by Brenda Hopkins | Jun 25, 2018 | Digital Health
What do you consider to be the most-hyped and most-promising healthcare technologies? If you were to look at in media today, in my opinion, block chain is hyped. People don’t even know what it is. It’s moving so fast. You would think that in an industry like...
by Brenda Hopkins | May 17, 2018 | Informatics
“I love documenting patient encounters,”said no clinician ever. Clinical documentation is a time-consuming source of frustration for physicians and nurses, yet a necessary evil for any hospital and health system that wants to keep its doors open and its lights on....
by Brenda Hopkins | Apr 25, 2018 | Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare IT
Why you should know about Application Programming Interfaces (API) and the importance in Healthcare APIs help developers with the task of passing data between disparate systems. APIs are gaining traction in healthcare as developers seek simple, standards-based...
by Brenda Hopkins | Mar 9, 2018 | consumerism, Continuum of Care, Digital Health
An effective team is now globally recognized as an essential tool for constructing a more effective and patient-centred health care delivery system. Identifying best practices through rigorous research, which can provide data on optimal processes for team-based care,...
by Brenda Hopkins | Feb 4, 2018 | Digital Health
Many industries have been disrupted by the influx of new technologies in the Information Age. Healthcare is no different.Particularly in the case of automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and industries...
by health | Jan 5, 2018 | consumerism, Continuum of Care, Digital Consumer Health, Digital Health, Healthcare Analytics, Healthcare Design, Healthcare Innovation, Mobility, outcomes
Granite Bay startup launches solution to help solve the opioid crisis (Published in Comstock’s Magazine) The opioid crisis was born in the late 1990s. Pharmaceutical companies said opioids — a class of drugs that produce pleasurable effects and relieve pain —...
by Brenda Hopkins | Dec 7, 2017 | value based care
CMS value-based programs reward health care providers with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to people with Medicare. These programs are part of our larger quality strategy to reform how health care is delivered and paid for. Value-based programs...
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