Search Tag: health outcomes
Better Outcomes Through Patient Portals
2020 05 Jun
Online patient portals help healthcare providers to reduce the time patients spend in the facility and to cut medical costs, a new study shows. You might also like: Patient responsibility for following up on test results The study , conducted by The University of Texas at Austin and published in June 2020 issue of MIS Quarterly... Read more
Monitor Me! Infographic
2019 26 Aug
An overview of mHealth and its application and implementation in healthcare. Read more
Enhancing precision medicine: sharing and reusing data
2019 22 May
The FAIR4Health project supports wider publicly-funded health data use How FAIR4Health aims to enable safe and ethical sharing of all data and metadata derived from publicly-funded research. The FAIR principles are intended to ensure that people and machines can reuse data. These principles are designed to be applied to data and metadata... Read more
EMIS Health appoints new CEO and CSO
2019 28 Mar
EMIS Health Group has recently announced Suzy Foster as Chief Executive Officer and Bob Brown as Chief Solutions Officer; these two senior appointments follow the company’s recent announcement of its next generation platform EMIS-X. Suzy Foster’s new role will make her responsible for EMIS Health’s end-to-end integrated care offerings... Read more
Heart attack patients treated at heart centres fare better
2019 06 Mar
New research from the UK shows heart attack patients brought directly to heart centres for lifesaving treatment have better long-term survival than those transferred from another hospital. Directly admitted patients were older, suggesting that heart attacks in young adults, and particularly women, go unrecognised by paramedics and patients, according... Read more
Sepsis process and outcomes improvement associated with mandatory reporting
2018 13 Sep
A state-wide mandated public reporting of compliance with protocols to treat severe sepsis and septic shock appears to improve care and reduce mortality, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In "Mortality Changes Associated with Mandated Public... Read more
Let's change before we have to
2018 25 Jan
T h e r ac e i s o n t o i m p l e m e n t t e c h n o l o g y e f f e c t i v e l y f or i m p r ov e d l i a i s i n g a n d b e t t e r h e a l t h o u t c o m e s. Healt h technolog y ca n chang e healthcar... Read more