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Health IT receiving much-needed attention from the government

Tammy Hinojos Medical & Allied Healthcare

Technological advances are by definition supposed to advance that portion of an industry they exist to serve. To make things easier, more intuitive, less burdensome. But all too often, it seems, just the opposite is true. Healthcare providers know all about the hurdles associated with electronic health records (EHRs). The cumbersome system — one that should be designed to streamline the information-gathering process — is broken, in the opinion of many American healthcare providers.

New benefits to incorporating a nurse practitioner for your practice

Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied Healthcare

Nurse practitioners are a boon for both patient outcomes and administrative progress. They can relieve a physician's workload and provide patients more extensive care in terms of both time and information. Interested in incorporating a nurse practitioner into your office? Consider the following research to understand the advantages further.

Study identifies top areas of concern for healthcare IT executives

Scott E. Rupp Medical & Allied Healthcare

The Center for Connected Medicine partnered with the Health Management Academy for a survey featuring responses from executives of leading health systems on their health information technology priorities. It explores five advanced health information technologies set to impact healthcare, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, consumer-facing technology, predictive analytics and virtual care. The research examines implementation, impacts and challenges in each of these areas and explores anomalies.

Putting the care back in healthcare

Keith Carlson Healthcare Administration

With the exponential increase of technology in the delivery of healthcare, we run the risk of dehumanizing healthcare in the interest of expediency and cost containment. At the same time, nurses in hospitals face untenable nurse-patient ratios, and even in milieus like home health and hospice we also feel the crunch of delivering as much care as possible in as little time as we can. Where will these trends take us and how can we put the notion of care back into healthcare?

5 tips to get repeat client visits

Heidi Dawson Sports & Fitness

A big problem for new therapists, those starting out on their own, or those starting back up after a break can be getting repeat bookings. People are busy and there are lots of therapists out there, so how do you keep them coming back to you? When I was first starting as a therapist, just after graduating, I missed a few tricks that I now know are key to getting clients to keep coming back. Here are my top tips that almost always guarantee a client comes back again.

Study: Evening stress may be worse than morning stress

Dorothy L. Tengler Mental Healthcare

The Decade of the Brain, as proclaimed by President George H.W. Bush for the 1990s, has come and gone. But many mysteries remain, and President Barack Obama launched his own brain research program in 2013 — The Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. The fact that the brain inspired such a call to action is not surprising in view of the many mysteries still to be revealed.

The pharmacist salary debate goes on

Jason Poquette Pharmaceutical

When the famous John D. Rockefeller was asked, "How much money is enough?" he reportedly replied, "Just a little bit more." I have yet to meet someone who felt he was overpaid for his work. Underpaid? For sure. Overpaid? Never. We are all, typically, very good at identifying "others" whom we think are paid too much. Rare is the person willing to question her or his own salary and wonder if they are overpaid.

Online patient reviews of EDs and urgent care centers inform care delivery

Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

The internet has changed how consumers experience healthcare. People now search the internet for information on a particular health problem they may be having, for example. In fact, 6 in 10 people said they turned to the internet for health problems within the previous year, according to a 2013 survey by Pew Research Center. Consumers are increasingly using online rating programs to rate and review hospitals. In a new study, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, researchers describe and compare the content and ratings of online reviews of urgent care centers and emergency departments (EDs).

FDA proposes restrictions on flavored nicotine

Dr. Denise A. Valenti Civil & Government

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently reported that from 2017 to 2018, there was a 78 percent increase in current e-cigarette use among high school students and a 48 percent increase among middle school students. More than two-thirds of these youth use flavored e-cigarettes. This alarming rise in use has prompted several policy changes that will directly impact youth appeal and youth access to flavored tobacco products. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., has taken action by proposing to prevent youth access to flavored tobacco products.

Doubling the dosage of influenza may improve immunogenicity in solid-organ…

Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

Influenza infection poses special challenges for solid-organ transplant recipients, as "the flu" increases their risk for bacterial pneumonia, admission to intensive care, and death. Furthermore, research suggests influenza infection can even increase the risk for allograft rejection and poorer allograft survival. Providing an annual vaccination that contains 15 micrograms of antigen per viral strain is an effective preventative strategy in solid-organ transplant recipients. Now, the results of a new study show that high-dose vaccines possessing 60 micrograms antigen per influenza strain enhance vaccine immunogenicity in this population.

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