Ochsner Health System has won a 2018 HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award, honored for the accomplishments of its Innovation Ochsner group, or Team iO, and its broader efforts to improve patient safety and population health. The workgroup within Ochsner, the large academic medical center based near New Orleans, has developed several specialized digital technologies that integrate with its electronic health record to improve its approach to treating high blood pressure and diabetes and monitoring matern...
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Measles continues to spread through Hamilton and the surrounding areas.
Those who attended a kapa haka event at Claudelands Events Centre in April, or used public transport in the city, might be at risk.
Waikato District Health Board's Population Health service has confirmed 15 measles cases and another 12 are under investigation....
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As the 2018 holiday season kicks off and people across the country gather to reflect on everything they have to be thankful for, there's the traditional core of family, friends, and food, of course. In the health, IT space we also have plenty of reasons to give thanks: new innovations, encouraging progress on longstanding challenges and more. Let's take a look at some of the most important and encouraging health IT advancements that we're grateful for this week. The future will be da...
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Increasingly unhealthy lifestyles will see half a million people a year being diagnosed with cancer by 2035, according to Cancer Research UK (CRUK). Currently, around 350,000 people a year are diagnosed with some form of cancer. But if current trends continue, CRUK predicts this figure will rise by a further 150,000 people....
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A jury ordered the giant medical scope maker Olympus Corp. to pay a Seattle hospital $6.6 million in damages tied to a deadly superbug outbreak - and told the hospital to pay $1 million to a deceased patient’s family. But jurors on Monday also handed the Tokyo-based manufacturer a key win, rejecting claims that its flagship duodenoscope was unsafe as designed. The decision follows an eight-week trial, the first in the U.S. related to gastrointestinal scopes causing outbreaks of drug-resist...
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Consumers are willing to embrace technology to engage with their healthcare providers, but still prefer a personal touch despite the abundance of digital channels available for communication, according to a Pegasystems and Censuswide survey of more than 2,000 U.S. consumers and 200 decision makers at healthcare engagement programs. The survey found 62 percent of consumers prefer phone interactions with doctors’ offices and 45 percent prefer the same with insurers. As for volume, nearly 30 ...
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