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Point-of-Care Convenience and The Required Investments in Quality Assurance

Point-of-Care testing may be considered essential for patient care in emergencies where time is of the essence and delays in diagnosis and stabilisation mean the difference between life, death or dysfunction. A rapid understanding and correction of physiological imbalances supports...

Modernizing Device Management to Empower Healthcare Workers

Clinical engineers, though not broadly recognized outside the industry, are often regarded as the unsung heroes of the hospital ecosystem. They are a constant, quiet presence as they fix equipment, provide maintenance, and troubleshoot problems. And importantly, clinical engineers...

The Solution to Infection Prevention: Clinical Process Improvement

In every hospital and health system across the country, the fight against infection is a priority for improving patient safety. Clinicians know very well the negative impact of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) on outcomes. Conditions like Clostridium difficile (C. diff) and...

Order Set Optimization: The Next Chapter for Point-of-Care Content Strategies

The past decade has ushered in a new day for point-of-care clinical decision making, thanks to Meaningful Use and other regulatory initiatives aimed at improving patient outcomes and costs. By and large, most of today’s hospitals and health systems...

Exasol helps Piedmont Healthcare’s Infection Control with Fast Data Analytics

The Initial Situation : Healthcare providers store a colossal amount of data in the form of decades of patient information, gathered before the real birth of data analytics, and before the concept of “big data” even existed. Piedmont alone had...

How Has Technology Revolutionised The Way We Brush?

Technology has been implemented in almost every aspect of our lives and oral care is no exception. With a number of high-tech toothbrushes available on the market, at a range of different prices, a picture-perfect smile is more achievable...

Study Links Bedside Access to Evidence-Based Nursing CDS and Increased Hospital Value-Based Care Performance Scores

Hospitals that arm nurses with bedside access to evidence-based nursing procedures and real-time step-by-step guides for clinical decision making at the point of care saw their Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program scores increase. That link between nursing Clinical Decision Support...

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