Creation of a Novel Pediatric Palliative Care Navigator to Improve End-of-Life Care for Children with Serious Illness
An interdisciplinary group of three nurses and two physicians with quality and information technology experience developed the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary pediatric palliative navigator to help tailor pediatric needs, drive development of benchmarks in our field, and ensure gold sta...
Recognizing Pediatric Elevated Blood Pressure using an EPIC Best Practice Alert
Texas Children’s Pediatrics (TCP), the largest primary care pediatric group practice in the USA, formulated a multipart intervention to improve hiBP recognition in January 2019.
Implementation of Real-time COVID-19 Vaccines Tracking with Integrated Medication Management Technology
This HIMSS Davies Award case study explores Texas Children’s COVID vaccine process and workflows.
Tackling Immunization Interoperability Challenges
Review the Immunization Integration Program (IIP) highlights of current and future efforts to improve immunization interoperability and data quality!
Predictive Medicine: Advancing Healthcare Through Better Data Governance
Healthcare is facing unsustainable challenges in today’s economic environment and Steve Holloway from Signify Research noted several drivers in his post-Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference wrap-up: global staff shortages, fewer physicians, increasing workloads and rising pat...
Remote Patient Monitoring 101 for LTPAC
In the wake of the pandemic, telehealth quickly became an integral part of care delivery by increasing access to care. This proved to be just as effective as in-person care for many diagnoses, especially with supportive legislation providing waivers and reimbursement changes.
Big Opportunities to Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency in Healthcare Operations
To cope with unprecedented challenges, health systems must learn to do more with less, and consolidation and efficiency are the name of the game.
Clinical Data Usability: A Critical Step in the Shift to Value-Based Care
Those organizations that do not have an informed and forward-looking clinical data quality strategy could incur avoidable financial and reputational risk as public reporting of quality, health equity and utilization become more heavily dependent on access to robust, high-quality and usable clinic...
Advancing Digital Transformation in the Community Sector
The majority of the world’s citizens receive healthcare services in their communities. During the height of the pandemic, there was a surge in out-of-hospital care with the burden of the patient management typically falling on primary care providers; many governments enacted temporary flexible...
Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry
When it comes to understanding the differences between academia and industry, an essential element to bridge the gap is the link between these two entities.
Can High-Reliability Organization Principles Help Transform Healthcare Delivery in the U.S.?
The pandemic highlighted an opportunity for the U.S. healthcare system to become more efficient and effective in delivering care during times of public health crises and beyond.
Improving Immunization Workflow for Providers – Bulk Query Functionality
Is there a way to efficiently query immunization information systems (IIS) and receive this information to make accurate clinical decisions?