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The practice's optimal start rate – when a patient begins dialysis at home, receives a preemptive transplant or begins in-center hemodialysis – had been 40%. With the new electronic health record, it's now 90%.

NTUH vice superintendent Dr I-Rue Lai explains current work to introduce a value-based care system, starting with a new scheme for chronic disease patients.

Health systems can get ahead of cyber subterfuge by deploying mock threat actors to break into information systems, move around and see what they can do, says Gina Bertolini, partner at K&L Gates.

With more complete data at the point of care – including patient out-of-pocket drug cost options – Emory aims to assist patients with prescription affordability and improve their medication outcomes.

According to I-DAIR's Dr Ricardo Leite, we can reduce the burden of disease by focusing our limited workforce on things we can fix. Going digital makes this possible, so we can shift from "disease systems" to "health systems".

The nurse stroke program manager offers an in-depth look at the virtual care initiative, which brings neurologists from other sites into critical decision-making.

An artificial intelligence tool that can automatically produce a first draft of a SOAP note – for the caregiver’s approval or editing – has the potential to save clinicians an enormous amount of time, an expert says.

The company recently expanded the platform's capabilities to support those in inpatient settings to work across hospital, ambulatory, telehealth, skilled nursing facilities and home health. 

Marquette is the first nursing school in the country to incorporate the use of Epic's educational health records software into its curriculum.

"Imagine if the tools on your computer that you need to do your job were so cumbersome, they caused you to be fatigued, burnout, and to have to work extra hours to get your job done. How would this impact the quality of your work?"