(MedPage Today) — If you take acute-care physicians aside these days, and get them to open up when they’re weary, you’ll hear a common thread. It goes like this: “Everybody is just so sick!” Sure, that’s our job. But people seem even sicker than… Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published To Err is Human 24 years ago with a call for the healthcare community to focus on patient safety. Despite widespread attention to the report, improvements in quality have been mixed… Powered by WPeMatico
Dr. Tejaswi Kompala, head of cardiometabolic clinical strategy at Teladoc Health, says too many people are overburdened by the needs associated with managing their chronic conditions – but that artificial intelligence could help in several ways. Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — As the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) Brain Health Summit convenes in September, it’s an opportune moment to explore the future of neurology and the role that digital quality measures (dQMs) will play in the evolution… Powered by WPeMatico
(MedPage Today) — “Dr. Pelzman, can you explain what all those scary little red arrows pointing up mean?” It feels like nearly every day, and sometimes several times a day, we get portal messages like this from patients, requesting that we explain… Powered by WPeMatico
A week of discussion spearheaded by the patient advocate group aims to highlight the risks of harm from unauthorized access to healthcare information over the internet. There should be “no aggregation without representation,” its leaders say. Powered by WPeMatico