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Bridges and Roads as Important to Public Health as Medicines - Lessons from Major Disasters
Two seemingly unrelated national policy debates are afoot, and we can’t adequately address one unless we address the other. Health care reform has been the hottest topic. What to do about America’s aging infrastructure has been less animated but may be more pressing. Yet even as cracks in America’s health system and infrastructure expand, political divides between parties and within parties have stalled efforts to develop policies and implement solutions. Problematically, debates over health care reform and infrastructure projects remain separate...
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Diagnostic Errors Top ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Concerns for 2018
ECRI Institute names diagnostic errors the number one concern on its 2018 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations. Each year, approximately 1 in 20 adults experiences a diagnostic error, according to published studies. These errors and delays can lead to care gaps, repeat testing, unnecessary procedures, and patient harm. “Diagnostic errors are not only common, but they can have serious consequences," says Gail M. Horvath, MSN, RN, CNOR, CRCST, patient safety analyst, ECRI Institute. "A lot of hospital deaths that were attributed to the normal course of disease may have been the result of diagnostic error."
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Managing Kidney Disease With mHealth
More than 20 million people living in the United States have kidney disease. It's the 8th leading cause of death. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is any condition that causes reduced kidney function over a period of time. End-stage kidney disease (ESRD) is the final stage of chronic kidney disease. It basically means that your kidneys don't work any more... Read More »
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Midland Memorial Hospital Integrates Patient Education Tool with OpenVista EHR
Midland Memorial Hospital is launching its latest evolution in leading-edge interactive patient education and engagement with the implementation of Allen Technologies’ with the hospital’s [OpenVistA EHR] platform by enabling nursing staff to assign patient education videos directly from the patient’s EHR.
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Research Raises Questions About App Usability, Accessibility
While mobile health apps have the potential to help patients better manage their chronic conditions, consumers that would benefit most—the poor and minorities—are not able to access and use the technology to realize the benefits. That’s the finding of a new observational study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine researching the impact of apps developed to enable adults to manage their chronic conditions...
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Stanford Medicine Launches Health Care Trends Report
Stanford Medicine today published its inaugural Health Trends Report, a comprehensive review and analysis of existing health care research and open-source data, combined with insights from Stanford faculty and external health care experts, on the current and emerging trends facing the health care sector. The report, which will be published annually, found the promise and challenge of big data to be the most important forces driving change and improvements across health care...
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The Impact Of Virtual Health Assistants On Global Health Literacy
As smartphone adoption and broadband infrastructure grows throughout the world, so does the ability to reach individuals of all backgrounds. Smartphones hold the promise to be the vehicle that will help to scale philanthropic and education efforts in remote locations of developing countries where health literacy is nearly non-existent. Read More »
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