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• Case Study: Munson Medical Improves Patient Safety With Wireless Monitoring

  4/13/2010

  Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) is widely used to administer pain-control medication. But as the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) reports, the available evidence suggests a significant and underappreciated risk of serious injury from PCA in the post-operative period, including a low but unpredictable incidence of respiratory events in young healthy patients. By CareFusion
• Tech Can Solve A Stubborn Problem: Medication Adherence

  7/21/2017

  Despite the healthcare ecosystem’s push for transparency, there remains a shroud of secrecy around one ubiquitous healthcare treatment tool: prescription drugs. By Thomas Borzilleri, CEO, InteliSys Health

• Sharing Ontologies Globally To Speed Science And Healthcare Solutions

  10/7/2020

  The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of how medical practitioners require swift access to enormous amounts of diverse information to efficaciously treat patients. They must synthesize individual data (vital signs, clinical history, demographics, and more) with rapidly evolving knowledge about COVID-19 and make decisions relevant to the conditions from which specific patients suffer.

• DCH Health System Reduces Costs, Denied Claims, A/R Days And $23.9 Million In Receivables Using CareMedic's eFR

  2/19/2010

  When it was built in 1916, no one imagined the quaint Druid City Ini rmary would eventually be transformed into today’s DCH Health System (DCH), the largest healthcare provider in West Alabama. Serving seven counties through its four locations, community-owned DCH generates approximately $1.5B in annual gross revenue. By CareMedic Systems, Inc.
• 8 Virtual Health Delivery Predictions For 2018

  1/5/2018

  When we look at healthcare on a global scale, the issues of access, quality, and value are universal. In 2017, we saw more patients, employers, health systems, payers, and providers turn to virtual care for resolution to a growing range of health issues. With its ability to address a wide range of objectives for a diverse audience across healthcare, the virtual delivery of care is primed for even wider adoption and progress in 2018 as its potential is further realized. Here are eight predictions for virtual care delivery in 2018.

• Chronic Disease Is Healthcare's Rising-Risk

  6/17/2016

  The move to value based care is no longer a question of if or when, it’s now. As health systems prepare for impending change in their revenue, they must decide if they are going to lead, follow or resist the transformation at their own peril. Leading Health Systems are already partnering with value-based payers and creating shared and full-risk contracts. New leadership teams, focused on Population Health Management (PHM) are essential to success under new alternative payment models that reward maintaining a healthy population. As a competitive business necessity, health systems must continue the acquisition of value-based care payer contracts. Those contracts also include the acquisition of significant financial risk. PHM’s task is to identify, track and manage the real drivers of costs across their populations and in doing so, manage the risk. By Phil Trotter, leader, Exercise is Medicine, Felipe Lobelo, associate professor of Global Health, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, and Ashley John Heather, co-founder, Off The Scale