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Hospital at Home: Aligning Provider Needs with Patient Wishes

HIT Consultant

By sending patients home earlier, aren’t we just transferring the burden of their care onto them, their loved ones, and community-based nurses? There is some truth that patients can struggle if they must record their own vital data (temperature or blood pressure).

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Unlocking Medical Device Potential: Data Integration Drives Better Patient Outcomes

HIT Consultant

With a focus on patient outcomes, healthcare leaders who keep the key benefits of data integration in mind will more efficiently overcome the challenges of adopting the most valuable medical technologies for their organization.

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10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit Begins

Patient Safety Movement

In a keynote address, Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pointed out that one in four hospital patients experience injury as a result of their care. A large proportion of patient safety problems can be eliminated. This will make a difference.”

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 1 of 5

Health Populi

health citizens: that is, consumers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians (especially nurses, pharmacists, and physicians). Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S.

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From Yorkshire Lad to Global Design for Health: A Profile of Sean Carney of Philips

Health Populi

Launched in 2013 , the team now has about 150 health care consultants, spanning Chief Nursing Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, ex-department heads of hospitals — the range of professionals who can, as Sean said, “dig in and redesign care pathways that optimize performance through design.”

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What If Marie Kondo Reorganized Health Care in the U.S.?

Health Populi

There is so much that can be done with the amazing human capital on the front lines of health care in America – the nurses, the physicians and the pharmacists who happen to be the most trusted professions in the country, Gallup tells us. Marie raises a good point: I would translate this as, “health care stakeholders in the U.S.

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