FEATURED CONTENT

• Addressing America's Looming Healthcare Gap Crisis During COVID-19

  10/5/2020

  While putting off care during the initial onset of the coronavirus made sense, continuing to do so will affect long-term outcomes. Here’s how providers can get patients back on track.

• EMR Roadblock Assuaged

  8/7/2012

  The transition to electronic charting in low-acuity environments is one thing; the transition in high-acuity departments is quite another. In critical care and ICUs, nurses spend an astounding amount of time checking — and rechecking — each patient’s status.

• 5 Trends In Healthcare Cloud Computing For 2020

  11/19/2019

  Cloud computing and healthcare go hand in hand and will continue to do so in 2020.

• CMS's Proposed PI Rule Changes Is A Good Start, But Does It Address Enough?

  6/5/2018

  Federal healthcare organizations such as CMS have spent billions of dollars over the years trying to bridge the gap between medical data and quality patient care with interoperability requirements and data integration, the mesh used to try and bridge the gap. Many government rules have been written to address the type of mesh needed and many EHR companies have claimed to meet these government requirements and claim the throne of the ultimate mesh maker.

• Post Traumatic Scheduling Disorder

  8/4/2016

  How one hospitalist division’s physician shift scheduling broke and became something great. By Romil Chadha, MD, MPH, FACP, FHM, hospitalist at University of Kentucky HealthCare

• HIT's Role In Improving Opioid Tracking In The Hospital

  8/30/2018

  Contrary to popular belief, pharmaceutical companies are not solely responsible for the opioid crisis we’re now experiencing. Physicians are also to blame. Pharmas tell us that only 1 in 1,000 patients become addicted to opioids, so don’t fear them. Meanwhile, physicians are naturally and understandably patient-focused, so their primary concern has always been to do whatever they can to relieve a patient’s pain in the most effective manner possible. In general, we were led to believe that opioid addiction and withdrawal are associated with long-term use, not as the result of the treatment decisions made while a patient is in the hospital.