Articles Tagged With: electronic
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IRB Improves and Simplifies Board Meeting Minutes Process
An IRB revised its board meeting minutes process from a clunky system of writing everything into an electronic document to one in which the minutes are automatically populated through the IRB’s electronic system, saving staff time and work. The old way of creating board meeting minutes sometimes took as long as a month for IRB staff to generate. Since the IRB revised its process, the staff can generate board meeting minutes within a week.
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Automating Auths: Not as Simple as It Sounds
If electronic prior authorization was implemented fully across the industry, the extra hours of work and high costs could be reduced significantly.
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Dozens of Medical Groups Call for Prior Authorization Reform
Letter indicates physician practices spend nearly 15 hours per week handling more than 30 prior authorizations.
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Vaping and Severe Acute Pneumonitis
As of Aug. 27, 2019, 215 cases of severe pulmonary disease possibly related to vaping have been reported to the CDC. Evidence to date suggests the illness is a form of acute lipoid pneumonia likely related to inhalation of lipid materials. -
EHRs, Devices Threaten Quality and Patient Satisfaction
Electronic health records and various devices bring countless benefits to the healthcare experience, but evidence is mounting that EHRs also threaten quality and patient satisfaction when clinicians spend too much time looking at a screen instead of the patient.
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Hospital Pays $17,000 Ransom in Cyberattack
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles has paid a ransom worth almost $17,000 to cyberattackers. -
Fully Electronic Health Records Tied to Lower Risk of In-Hospital Adverse Events
Do EHRs improve patient safety or put patients at risk? That’s the million dollar question. -
Electronic Cigarette and Nicotine Toxicity
MONOGRAPH: Their health effects, potential toxicity with inappropriate consumption, role as a portal to other drugs, and the lack of adequate regulation.
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Electronic Cigarette and Nicotine Toxicity
MONOGRAPH: The majority of electronic cigarette users are still smoking traditional cigarettes in addition to vaping.
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Do EMRs take so much time that they threaten patient safety?
Electronic medical records can be polarizing: Some people love them, some people hate them.