The root causes of nursing burnout are varied – as are potential solutions for it. However, given that nurses are frequently responsible for clinical documentation, it’s perhaps not surprising that reducing documentation burden is frequently cited as a key strategy for fighting burnout. Whether it’s through more in-depth electronic health record training..
People have wholeheartedly embraced asynchronous communication around the globe. In business and social circles, communicating with tools such as text messaging, Google Docs, and Slack is now par for the course. So it’s not surprising that the demand for asynchronous healthcare experiences – telemedicine delivered as the store-and-forward transmission of..
Three weeks after a cyber attack led to a network outage at Scripps Health, employees say some systems are coming back online. According to reporting from ABC News, several Scripps Health workers said they’d regained access to “read-only” medical records from before May and payroll systems, along with some computers, emails, and X-rays. ..
UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has today announced the launch of the Genome UK 2021-2022 implementation plan. Following the Genome UK policy paper published in September 2020, the plan outlines 27 priority actions for the next year that will help the UK to advance its ambition to become “the world’s most advanced genomic..
In a new report examining the rapidly evolving telehealth landscape, KLAS found that vendors self-reported a wide array of capabilities – and it noted that different companies can meet different customers’ needs. KLAS also found varying levels of self-reported customer adoption of vendors’ tools across four common telehealth scenarios. “To help healthcare..
Pure Cardiology is a membership-based concierge practice in Charlotte, North Carolina. It cares for complex patients with a focus on preventing events and having patients engaged in their health management. Remote patient monitoring technology keeps the patient paying attention to their health and allows the cardiologists to carefully monitor their..
After detecting the security incident on May 1, Scripps Health suspended user access to its IT applications, including its online patient portal and scripps.org. As of Monday, the website continues to display an error message. “We apologize for any inconvenience and are working diligently to restore our systems as quickly..
While digital health is crucial in filling the gaps in healthcare access by connecting with patients beyond physical care facilities, it would not work on its own, says a consulting expert at healthcare access company Axios International. A panel discussion chaired by the company in early April, titled “Making healthcare..
The health system wanted to turn off NextGen so it could reduce the cost and complexity of having multiple systems up and running, but it needed to keep those legacy records easily accessible to clinicians and the healthcare information management team. AltaMed also needed to comply with record retention requirements…
The stock market seems to be flailing about like a wounded animal, veering from one factor driving performance to another (value, growth, momentum, etc). At the time of writing, the FTSE 100 is up around 7% over the year-to-date. In dollar terms, it is up a little over 8% but,..