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Decision Support

Electronic Health Records
By Bill Siwicki | 03:44 pm | September 24, 2018
This case study looks at the electronic prescription support technology now guiding roughly 80 percent of the health system's prescription decisions.
Electronic Health Records
By Mike Miliard | 04:39 pm | September 21, 2018
Post-surgical readmissions were halved at the health system, HIMSS says, driven by EHR optimization and decision support tools – it's also helped combat potential opioid dependency.
Analytics
By Bill Siwicki | 01:31 pm | September 10, 2018
Imagine knowing, in real time, whether a patient will suffer a surgical infection as a surgeon closes up a wound.
Analytics
By Bill Siwicki | 04:45 pm | August 29, 2018
Data scientists from Takeda and institute ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte are applying artificial intelligence to pools of patient data to test how treatment-resistant depression responds to medication.
Patient Engagement
By Bill Siwicki | 09:58 am | August 29, 2018
By deploying a mental health IT platform, Comprehensive Mental Health Services provided evidence-based, self-care interventions to combat depression and anxiety.
Workflow
By Mike Miliard | 03:14 pm | August 27, 2018
It hopes decision support and clinical surveillance tools will help boost standards of care at all sites across its 10-state health system.
Workflow
By Bill Siwicki | 09:47 am | August 23, 2018
A case manager at Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center devised a new program that also reaped an 81 percent reduction in avoidable emergency department visits by high utilizers.
Precision Medicine
By Mike Miliard | 12:35 pm | August 20, 2018
The technology, in progress at the university's CSAIL institute, could help locate cancer and guide deployment of internal treatments.
Workflow
By Bill Siwicki | 04:26 pm | August 17, 2018
The rural hospital uses a care collaboration network and emergency department-specific platform to change the behaviors of its super users and patients seeking narcotics.
IT Infrastructure
By Jessica Davis | 01:25 pm | August 15, 2018
While CMS Administrator Seema Verma called for the end of fax machine use by 2020, new Check Point research found a hacker could steal data from a flaw in the fax protocol.