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Deep dive: A tour of all-digital Oklahoma Heart Hospital, where automation is the norm

Healthcare It News

Today we focus on the hospital, its operations, and what an all-digital approach means to patients, providers and outcomes. Tomorrow we'll focus on a major digital project at the hospital – switching over from a Cerner electronic health record to Epic. It also allows a much more personalized approach to preventative care.

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Medical Billing Services Reduce Denials and Accelerate Claims Processing

p3care

Advantum Health states that, as reported by the Advisory Board, 90% of the claim denials can be prevented, but still many healthcare providers fail to decrease them. Cost Savings: Availing of healthcare billing solutions diminishes the need for staff permanently based in the clinic or the hospital.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare It News

" In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center expanded its platform and developed an integrated nurse triage telehealth solution pilot to prevent critical care patients from ending up in the ER. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Unleashing the Potential of Implementation Science to Prevent Harm in Healthcare

Patient Safety Movement

One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. The shameful reality is that it can take up to 17 years between the publication of protocols for preventing harm, and their actual implementation in the clinic.

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Unleashing the Potential of Implementation Science to Prevent Harm in Healthcare

Patient Safety Movement

One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. The shameful reality is that it can take up to 17 years between the publication of protocols for preventing harm, and their actual implementation in the clinic.

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Addressing Point-of-Care Ultrasound’s Shadow IT Problem

HIT Consultant

By administering ultrasound technology at the point of care, whether that be the patient’s bedside or an ambulance, POCUS prevents patients from being sent to another facility for imaging or waiting for a radiologist. Across hospital settings, IT infrastructure has not kept pace with ultrasound innovation.

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Hospital-acquired Pneumonia is Killing Patients. There’s a Simple Way to Stop It.

Briggs Healthcare

Instead, many hospitals often skip teeth brushing to prioritize other tasks and provide only cheap, ineffective toothbrushes, often unaware of the consequences, said Dian Baker, a Sacramento State nursing professor who has spent more than a decade studying NVHAP. Pneumonia occurs when germs trigger an infection in the lungs.