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Strategic Innovations in Care Transitions for High-Cost Populations


A guide for healthcare systems, providers and payers
Whether they are an advanced emerging or developing economy countries throughout the world struggle with the economic effects of chronic conditions and comorbidity also known as Multiple Chronic Conditions MCC This review outlines the key USA strategic innovations in care transitions some accelerate...
Ensuring Patient Safety

Ensuring Patient Safety


Role of regulation
The regulation in ensuring safety of the patient will play a very important role The Nursing and Midwifery Council NMC was set up by the UK Parliament for the expressed purpose of safeguarding the health and wellbeing of patients and the public The Council does this by establishing and maintaining s...
The Electronic Health Record

The Electronic Health Record


Delivering healthcare for the 21st century
The delivery of healthcare has been largely unchanged in fundamental aspects for decades Despite significant advances in science medical diagnostic tools surgical interventions and pharmacology the basic transaction has remained almost solely facetoface interaction between healthcare professionals a...
Medical Errors and Litigations

Medical Errors and Litigations


Are they preventable?
Medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient This might include an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis or treatment of a disease injury infection or other ailment Medical errors happen when something that was planned as a part of medical...
Direct Practice Medicine

Direct Practice Medicine


Better outcomes, lower costs
While times and technology have changed dramatically in the last years the basic practice of medicine has remained the same through generations A doctor is still a medical problem solver armed with three primary tools knowledge experience and technology More importantly even while the tools have ev...
Healthcare Disparities

Healthcare Disparities


Closing the gap
The Institute of Medicine IOM report documented that racial and ethnic minorities experienced higher mortality rates worse health outcomes and were less likely to receive routine procedures Such practices reduce high quality health and effective patientcentered timely and efficient management Recent...
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The Spine of Healthcare Delivery


The Spine of Healthcare Delivery
As the spine of the healthcare delivery the EMR comes into a maturity stage it is time to unlock its full potential by increasing the adaptation rate for caregivers via the implementation of communication technologies The same communication technologies can be used to further increase the potentia...
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Decision-Based Evidence Making


Developing tools and strategies for comparative effectiveness
Despite the steady increase in public and private funding of clinical trials and health services the current research enterprise in the US is not meeting the rising demand from decision makers for studies demonstrating evidence of clinical effectiveness According to the National Library of Medicine...
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Effective Leadership for Patient Safety


Lessons from the 'Safer Patient Initiative'
Estimates suggest that one in ten patients admitted to hospital experience an incident which puts their safety at risk These incidents may result in harm and in some circumstances death A stark reality is the fact that about half of these events could have been avoided In England alone there are ove...
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21st Century Healthcare


New paradigms
By the end of the th century very significant improvements had been made in the effectiveness of healthcare half of the added years of life were due to the second healthcare revolution The first healthcare revolution took place in the th century when public health measures such as the provision o...
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