Sheila O’Donnell has been instrumental in Crothall’s Health Technology Systems (HTS) tripling its revenues since 2016. HTS now manages over one million medical devices and clinical technologies in more than 200 U.S. hospitals. As Senior Vice President of the Technical Resource Group, she oversaw HTS’s operations, including information technology, cybersecurity, supply chain management, technology assessment,…
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Audrey Jiricko, senior medical director of women’s health at Intermountain Health. She discusses how the organization is screening women for intimate partner violence. The post MedCity FemFwd: The Link Between Intimate Partner Violence and Health appeared first on MedCity News.
When systems integrate better, every minute saved by removing roadblocks is a minute given back to clinicians and patient care. It’s time for vendors in this space to treat interoperability as a core business strategy rather than a buzzword or another box to check as they’re going through the motions. The post Why Playing Nice…
[Sponsored] The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want. The post Changes in Nurse Staffing Answer Clinician Demands appeared first on MedCity News.
Enhancing the accessibility of trustworthy medicines information and the availability of SRDs while also improving search technologies will ensure HCPs can quickly obtain accurate answers to their specific questions. The post The Challenges Of HCPs Accessing Reliable Online Medicines Information and What Pharma Companies Can Do To Improve Information Sharing appeared first on MedCity News.
This volume examines beliefs about bird flu and the false promotion of vitamin A as a measles prevention. It also covers social media content moderation and the misrepresentation of a study on gender-affirming care. Lastly, it explores when people prefer AI chatbots over humans for health information.
Providers and payers have an obligation to fulfill contractual obligations to one another. However, mistakes happen, and when they do, they can be costly. More and more, providers are turning to healthcare contract management technology to ensure accountability, protect against revenue losses and streamline efficiencies – all while improving the relationship between providers and payers….
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as the most effective way…
In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have for more than a decade openly defied state law by refusing to add fluoride to the drinking water. For its refusal, the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority has received hundreds of state…
Kent Dicks, CEO, and Kendall Paulsen, Telehealth Solutions lead, at Life 365 showed me their comprehensive set of tools and services for remote patient monitoring, or what I call the “continuous clinic”. Kent did this with MedApps, later acquired by Alere. But at Life 365 he’s building a new approach to getting the tools and…