The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...
The accountable care model attempts to fix healthcare in the U.S. by striving to meet the triple aim of lowering healthcare costs while improving population health and care quality. However, ...
Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences. Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with ...
Improving patient care by identifying and addressing potential gaps is essential for better patient outcomes. Yet, providers are often unaware of these gaps, and the current methods payers use to ...
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imprivata ® (NYSE: IMPR), the healthcare IT security company, today announced that University of Utah Health Care will implement Imprivata PatientSecure, the ...
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SEQSTER PDM Inc. (“SEQSTER”), the leading patient-centric healthcare technology company, and Antidote Technologies (“Antidote”), a digital health company that focuses on ...
Healthcare: try to name a sector in which the importance of process excellence is higher. You’ll struggle. Every decision, every action, every allocation of personnel or resources has a direct impact ...
Now that providers have largely implemented patient portals and the foundation for patient engagement strategies, the next step is to implement initiatives to get patients more actively involved in ...