Athenahealth Launches Text Messaging for Providers and Care Teams
A new, secure text messaging service called athenaText® is fully integrated with athenahealth’s cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform and accessible through the standalone athenaText and Epocrates mobile apps. AthenaText is available at no cost to more than one million healthcare professionals on the athenahealth network, including every athenaClincials® EHR and Epocrates user. Additionally, healthcare … Continued
Hand Hygiene by GOJO
Special Advertising Section: Hand Hygiene—Always a Gentleman If we have known that hand hygiene was necessary for patient safety and wellbeing since the 1860s, why has it taken so long to instill the habit of washing before and after treating a patient? Hand Hygiene: Moving Toward the Five Moments Much has been written and discussed … Continued
The Beryl Institute Opens Applications for 2015 Patient Experience Grant and Scholar Programs
Annual Programs Support Research Efforts to Improve the Patient Experience The Beryl Institute announces its sixth annual Patient Experience Grant Program and fourth annual Institute Scholar Program. In partnership with Patient Experience Institute, these offerings reinforce the commitment to help frame and expand the field of patient experience, develop leaders on the front lines and … Continued
AHA Advisory Group Issues Report on Interoperability
In a report released in July, the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Interoperability Advisory Group (IAG) calls on health systems and hospitals, developers and vendors of electronic devices and information systems, and government and regulatory agencies to work together to improve the interoperability of healthcare data. In Achieving Interoperability that Supports Care Transformation, the group observes … Continued
Health IT & Quality: How to Keep Score
In this age of Yelp®, TripAdvisor®, and Amazon®, product reviews greatly influence which items consumers purchase. Anyone who buys regularly online understands over time the validity of various product reviews and learns how to apply a personal algorithm to cut through to meaningful product information while ignoring prefabricated, biased content.
A Dialogue on Improving Patient Experience throughout the Continuum of Care: A New Report From the Beryl Institute
The Beryl Institute has released a white paper that explores the focus on patient, resident, and family experience in various healthcare settings. A Dialogue on Improving Patient Experience throughout the Continuum of Care provides insight from healthcare leaders and reinforces the importance of patient experience. The paper shares a community dialogue held at The Beryl … Continued
Sanjay Saint Receives the APIC 2015 Distinguished Scientist Award
The Association of Professionals in Infection Control (APIC) has awarded Sanjay Saint, MD, with the organization’s Distinguished Scientist Award. The award is given annually to an APIC member who has made a significant and sustained contribution to infection prevention science and who exemplifies scholarly excellence and infection prevention leadership within the scientific community. The award … Continued
Emergency Care Innovation Award of the Year
Application deadline is July 31, 2015. The Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award is an annual competition sponsored by Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group. The award recognizes multidisciplinary emergency department-based teams who have implemented a process or strategy to improve patient, clinical, and operational outcomes and can demonstrate measureable assessment of … Continued
AHA Recognizes Hospitals with the Equity of Care Award
Grants & Awards Award honors hospitals for promoting diversity, reducing health disparities. Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, are both winners of the American Hospital Association’s second annual Equity of Care Award. The AHA award recognizes hospitals for their efforts to reduce healthcare … Continued
Brain and Spine Surgery No More Risky When Physicians-In-Training Participate, Study Finds
Having residents—physicians in training—participate in surgery does not in itself increase a patient’s risk of postoperative complications or of dying within 30 days of the surgery, according to a recent study of more than 16,000 brain and spine surgeries. A report on the study appears in the April issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery. “Patients … Continued