The Map to Sustainability for Safe Patient Handling & Mobility

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is aggressive and often difficult to treat, but many patients may have new hope. On August 17, 2018, the FDA approved the first immunotherapy the checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo, Bristol-Myers Squibb for patients with small cell lung cancer. Since this approval, there has been renewed focus on how to make different immunotherapies work for a disease which typicallly comprises 10-15% of all lung cancer cases. In this webinar for patients and caregivers, Matthew Hellmann, M.D., of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center discusses the new FDA approval, clinical trials, and potential treatments for patients with small cell lung cancer.

Many Health Information Management departments are still prepping charts that come from all departments of a hospital system. This means that there is a potential time lag in making this critical information available to providers. The first place to start is selecting a document imaging solution for any paper being produced outside of your EMR system. But let's take this a step further. What if we move document imaging out of the HIM department and into each clinical area of a hospital?

Medical records are currently a primary target of hackers. This clearly indicates the ultimate value that medical records hold. However that begs an introductory question, who owns those records in the first place? The physician, hospital, or other health care provider who compiles the medical records has a clear claim to the records, but so does the patient who is the subject of the information.

As a healthcare provider, delivering great patient and staff experiences are critical. HIMSS Media and ServiceNow recently conducted a joint survey of your peers to understand how hospitals are driving better patient and business outcomes by leveraging technology to create more efficient workflows. While some of the results were expected, some may surprise you.