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Medication Reconciliation
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Drug morbidity in half of patients
Healthcare professionals say that half of patients have drug-related morbidity, according to two new studies from the Nordic School of Public Health NHV, based on research in Sweden. Researchers
Patients leave hospital without meds
After discharging patients, there is a great risk of care drop off. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that after discharge from acute-care
SPOTLIGHT: How Partners HealthCare boosts med reconciliation
Health IT changes can help bring medication reconciliation adherence to 98 percent, according to Partners HealthCare, which includes Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Partners HealthCare: How EMR, health IT boosts medication reconciliation
Health IT changes can help bring medication reconciliation adherence to 98 percent, according to Partners HealthCare, which includes Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Health data exchange, cloud computing among key HIMSS trends noticed by observers
HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., was notable as much for its timing as for its 31,000-plus participants --a new record--and the positive energy they radiated. The show occurred just as registration for the
Sentara uses dashboard to drive improvement with EHR data
What does a healthcare system with seven hospitals on an electronic health record and an eighth about to go online do with all that data? In the case of Sentara Health System in Norfolk, Va., they
Mobile technologies could help slash hospital readmission rates
Unplanned hospital readmissions cost Medicare $17.4 billion a year, and as many as 76 percent of these events are preventable, says the Center for Technology and Aging, citing a 2009 study in the New
'Most Wired' hospitals consider meaningful use a roadmap, not a destination
The Department of Health and Human Services was a couple of weeks late with the final rule for meaningful use of health IT, based on a self-imposed deadline, but that delay was fortuitous for
Siemens hires John Glaser to lead health IT division, updates Soarian
As followers of our Twitter feed and fans of FierceHealthIT on Facebook learned on Friday, Siemens Healthcare scored a major coup by hiring Partners HealthCare System CIO John Glaser to be CEO of the
Medco to pay pharmacists for closing medication loop
Pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions will deliver electronic alerts to pharmacies for patients who may not be following their doctors' orders and pay as many as 100 pharmacists in
