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An Internist’s Toughest Task: Getting Medication Lists Right

Getting into the Rhythm: Medication Reconciliation Improves the Discharge Dance

21st Century Cures Act: Opportunities and Risks for EHR and HIT Vendors
  
September 15, 2022

An Internist’s Toughest Task: Getting Medication Lists Right

Internal Medicine doctors have a lot to think about. They provide a broad range of care to treat a wide variety of medical conditions—from common...
August 16, 2022

21st Century Cures Act: Opportunities and Risks for EHR and HIT Vendors

It’s finally here. After years of planning, analysis, and debate, the 21st Century Cures Act ONC Final Rule is in place. What does this mean for...
July 26, 2022

Getting into the Rhythm: Medication Reconciliation Improves the Discharge Dance

When a hospital discharges a patient to a nursing home, it sets in motion a carefully choreographed sequence of events that must be performed...
June 22, 2022

Guest Post: Let’s Not Accept Fragmented Medication Data as a Normal State of Affairs

When physicians get together, we swap stories like athletes recounting the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. It’s a way to share patient...
June 16, 2022

What Does It Cost? Prescription Price Transparency is Priceless for Providers and Patients

Healthcare providers and patients are often in the dark when it comes to the cost of prescription drugs. That’s more than a simple...
May 10, 2022

Dynamic Data is a Doctor’s Best Friend

They say “a picture is worth a thousand words.” If that’s true, a picture is priceless when it comes to data. Just as a spreadsheet of raw...
April 19, 2022

Easy-Peasy: AI Simplifies a Complex Data Migration Project

As healthcare organizations continue to consolidate due to mergers and acquisitions, one of the big challenges they face is how to migrate data from...
April 1, 2022

DrFirst Brings Holograms to Telehealth

DrFirst continues to shake up the health tech sector, this time with a cutting-edge holographic physician projection device. The new tech—iHOP—or...
March 17, 2022

Partnerships Are the Key to Clean Data Migrations

Unstructured, incomplete clinical data is the enemy of value-based care and impedes population health initiatives. In a recent interview, John Lynn...
March 9, 2022

Game-Changing Pharmacy Solution Recognized as Edison Awards Finalist

In honor of the 175th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s birthday, the Edison Awards™ is recognizing excellence in new product development and...
March 8, 2022

Guest Post: When Medication Data Gets Stuck, Patient Safety Suffers

If you work with or use healthcare data, you probably have a negative reaction to the word “silos.” That’s because while the industry has spent...
February 23, 2022

Using Technology to Combat Front-Line Fatigue in the Pharmacy

“The biggest challenge for pharmacists is time,” says Heidi Polek, RPh, Strategic Program Manager at DrFirst. And she should know. A...
February 15, 2022

Guest post: Making E-Prescribing Safer for Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment Providers and Patients

As if the coronavirus pandemic weren’t challenging enough, the resulting social isolation, loss of employment, and increase in anxiety also has...
January 6, 2022

Podcast: Becker’s Talks Medication Management with Colin Banas, M.D.

Scott Becker, Publisher and Founder of Becker’s Hospital Review, kicks off 2022 by talking to Colin Banas, M.D., M.H.A., about his transition from...
December 21, 2021

Hot Health IT Topics of 2021: 5 Most Popular Posts

We thought there couldn’t be another year quite like 2020…until 2021 came along. The unremitting pandemic continued to spark major shifts in the...
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