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Burda on Healthcare: The Numbers Don’t Add Up for Patient Safety

HealthIT Answers

Burda - When we last used this column to visit the topic of patient safety, things were bleak. In “Dead Patient Walking,” we argued that patients are at risk before they even receive care from such things as supply chain shortages, poor EHR systems, cybersecurity attacks and prior authorization delays. By David R.

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Celebrating Value Analysis Week with Experts from Cedars-Sinai, RWJBarnabas, and Health First

Symplr

It is also a time to build connections among the value analysis community and touch on the complex challenges that supply chain teams have come face-to-face with across the country.

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Revenue Integrity in 2024: Reducing Leakage Points in a Complicated Cycle

HIT Consultant

As an example, I often refer back to the early days in my career as a young ER nurse, where charge capture meant an index card in the patient’s chart that our business office would remind us to use to capture supplies and medications used during a patient’s visit.

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Revenue Integrity in 2024: Reducing Leakage Points in a Complicated Cycle

Healthcare IT Today

As an example, I often refer back to the early days in my career as a young ER nurse, where charge capture meant an index card in the patient’s chart that our business office would remind us to use to capture supplies and medications used during a patient’s visit.

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Book Review: ‘The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India’

Bill of Health

Topical issues such as traditional medicine and Ayurveda are explained in detail in chapters seven and eight. The authors also discuss supply chain aspects of the system, including online pharmacies and issues with branding and drug advertisements. Incidents that led to states stepping-in to regulate drugs are explored.

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Top health tech hazards for 2022: cyberattacks, supply chain shortfalls and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The nonprofit safety group ECRI Institute published the latest version of its annual health technology hazards report this week, pointing to cybersecurity attacks, supply chain shortfalls and damaged infusion pumps as three of the biggest dangers. The report authors note that many of the culprits are new to the list. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Supply chain: Machine learning insights. " Going forward, using AI-powered big data analytics to optimize the supply chain is going to be essential, said Byczkowski. " Going forward, using AI-powered big data analytics to optimize the supply chain is going to be essential, said Byczkowski.

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