November 5, 2019
Face to face: On site at Halifax Health [Video]
Reading about a hospital’s success is one thing, but hearing stories face-to-face with clinicians is something entirely different. I recently visited Halifax Health to hear how MEDITECH Expanse is helping real doctors care for real patients at this busy trauma center and health system.
October 29, 2019
Physician engagement doesn’t have to be ‘Mission Impossible’
Even with most organizations embracing the team approach to healthcare nowadays, the whole system is still very physician-led and directed. To use a football analogy, a play isn’t going to work without the quarterback’s buy-in.
October 22, 2019
Why MEDITECH's transition to Google Cloud is the 'beginning of a bigger movement': CEO Howard Messing
Howard Messing, CEO of MEDITECH, recently spoke with Becker's Health IT and CIO Report about how the EHR vendor's partnership with Google Cloud will help advance interoperability and support broader digital health analytics.
October 16, 2019
MEDITECH eh – Investment in Canadian EHR Market Pays Off
When MEDITECH released their latest statistics for their Canadian operations, there were two eye-popping numbers: 47% market share; and 35 years investing in the Candian EHR market
October 9, 2019
How I found my path to becoming a home care nurse
Every nurse has their own story of how and why they got into healthcare. Providing compassionate patient care requires a sense of purpose that helps create personal connections and results in meaningful experiences. For me, the intimate nature of the nurse-patient relationship changed my life and ...
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October 8, 2019
How a combined OB-ED improves care at St. Bernards Healthcare
Expectant mothers present a unique set of challenges for the providers who care for them; aside from their own health, clinicians are also tracking and responding to the needs of their unborn babies.
October 1, 2019
3 areas to target when preparing for CMS’s imaging appropriate use criteria
If your organization is a Provider-Led Entity that orders advanced diagnostic imaging services for Medicare patients, preparing to meet requirements for imaging appropriate use criteria (IAUC) is likely to be high on your priority list. CMS expects a variety of outpatient settings, including ...
September 26, 2019
How an EHR can help physicians practice opioid stewardship
As physicians, we often don’t see the harm that opioid pain medications can cause to the individual, whether through side effects, dependence, or diversion. Also, we may not always consider the implications on the national scale; prescription drug overdose deaths have increased exponentially from ...
September 24, 2019
How nursing roles are expanding to support population health efforts
In order to build healthier communities and improve population health management, providers need information about a patients’ health that goes beyond clinical factors. How can we achieve this?
September 20, 2019
Progress in the fight against the opioid epidemic
National Recovery Month sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is observed every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy, rewarding ...