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

HIT Consultant

Multiple studies, from The Nurse Practitioner and the Annals of Medicine and Surgery , identify POCUS as a convenient tool that reduces the number of imaging tests required to achieve a diagnosis and is able to circumvent barriers that have prevented certain populations from being able to access medical imaging in the past.

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Newsletter, August 2023

Patient Safety Movement

2B: Create a learning ecosystem and shared accountability system to ensure that evidence-based practices are implemented and goals for reduced harms and risks of harm for all Americans are realized. We have had a bad time this last week affecting the NHS in England, as the case of Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse in Chester, was concluded.

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Exposing Healthcare Fraud with Jonathan Tycko| E. 68

Vie Healthcare

So what I would say is you can’t, and particularly in healthcare where it’s such a heavily regulated business, you can’t just view compliance as a problem. It’s a highly regulated industry. I mean, you can put good people… It’s what we see with all the nursing shortages right now.

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Innovative Cost Savings Ideas For Hospitals In 2023| E. 60

Vie Healthcare

.” And I think that bringing these initiatives all together so you get a complete picture with complete visibility, cohesiveness, understanding what’s going on, and of course that terrible A-word which is accountability, bringing it all together, we’ll have just another level of savings because you just have a complete view.

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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

HIT Consultant

Additionally, digitized health records have been used to make patient information more easily accessible, first to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and HITECH mandates, and now, increasingly, to meet the 21st Century Cures Act ‘Final Rule’ mandate, requiring timely and standardized access to all patient data.