Emphasizing Electronic Medical Records in Toxicity Management
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 4, 2022
Exploring the significant role of electronic medical records (EMR) in toxicity management for patients with HR+/HER2– breast cancer.
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How blockchain can revolutionise medical records and save lives
pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
If appropriately implemented, blockchain-based medical records systems of tomorrow could be far more accurate, secure and accessible than the one-size-fits-all approach applied to today’s electronic health records, all while putting additional power back in the hands of the patients. The state of medical records today.
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Electronic Medical Record Utilization and Medicare Considerations for RSV Vaccines
Pharmacy Times
AUGUST 4, 2023
Electronic health record utilization and financial considerations for RSV vaccines in adults are overviewed by Drs Madison and Welch.
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Walmart deploys Epic medical records tech across its health centers, virtual care services
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Walmart deploys Epic medical records tech across its health centers, virtual care services. Wed, 09/29/2021 - 12:53.
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Providers more likely to use negative descriptors in Black patients' medical records, study finds
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 19, 2022
Providers more likely to use negative descriptors in Black patients' medical records, study finds. Wed, 01/19/2022 - 15:17.
Clover Health to integrate Assistant tool into athenahealth electronic medical record
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Clover Health to integrate Assistant tool into athenahealth electronic medical record. Tue, 09/07/2021 - 14:26.
No longer brushed off: A Minnesota clinic tries to rewrite medicine’s approach to miscarriage
STAT
AUGUST 31, 2023
— By the time Taylor Teske came to be sitting on an exam table in an obstetrician’s office in Minnesota, her medical records marked a devastating journey: nine pregnancies, one baby, eight miscarriages. WOODBURY, Minn. The first miscarriage happened in June 2018, almost as soon as she found out she was pregnant.
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Oracle Health integrates generative AI, voice tech into EHR system to automate medical note-taking
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Software giant Oracle has integrated generative AI services into its Cerner electronic medical record system as health IT companies race to harness this cutting-edge tech for providers.
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Type 2 Diabetes in Young Patients Spiked in Year 1 of COVID-19 Pandemic
Drug Topics
AUGUST 29, 2022
Using electronic medical record data from 2018-2020 obtained from 24 medical centers across the US, including Johns Hopkins, University of Colorado, and Mayo Clinic institutions, a new study suggests rates of youth onset type 2 diabetes increased 77% during the first year of the pandemic.
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How policymakers could tweak HIPAA to better protect abortion records
STAT
MARCH 2, 2023
WASHINGTON — Patient privacy law offers little protection if law enforcement requests a person’s medical records — an issue that’s fueled concern as states impose restrictions on abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Jacobs recently worked with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.)
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Opinion: Bloated patient records are filled with false information, thanks to copy-paste
STAT
JUNE 20, 2023
I recently took care of a patient whose medical records included multiple notes about her past open-heart surgery. Only she had never undergone open-heart surgery. Read the rest…
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STAT+: ‘Apples to apples’: How new health data rules could hold providers accountable
STAT
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Last year, medical records opened up to patients. Before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, electronic health care record vendors will have to provide tools to easily pull big batches of patient data from their systems. This year, they’re opening up to the nation. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
Digital health startup Dorsata sues Athenahealth alleging deceptive business practices and trade secret theft
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 24, 2023
Digital health startup Dorsata has filed a lawsuit against electronic medical records software company Athenahealth and women's health practice Unified Women's Healthcare.
Opinion: The staggering financial burden of a proposed HIPAA rule
STAT
MARCH 17, 2023
health care system is facing a new and costly threat that will affect patient care and ultimately may lead to hospital closures : paying for and processing a torrent of medical record requests. The already beleaguered U.S.
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Opinion: Do chatbots have more time to be empathetic than physicians?
STAT
MAY 17, 2023
The findings raised questions about the potential for using chatbots, like ChatGPT, to help providers answer patient questions submitted through electronic medical records — a task that can take hours of stolen, rushed time between appointments at the clinic.
MultiCare community hospital agrees to HIPAA settlement over 'snooping' security guards
Fierce Healthcare
JUNE 15, 2023
A Washington community hospital is paying settlement fees and implementing a corrective action plan after a Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights investigation caught numerous security | Twenty-three emergency department security guards at MultiCare's Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital were reported to have used their login credentials (..)
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Opinion: Medicaid during incarceration: a step toward health equity
STAT
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
As a physician caring for chronically ill individuals recently released from incarceration, I’ve become accustomed to working as a detective of sorts, trying to piece together the care they received while incarcerated in an attempt to recreate their medical histories and treatment plans.
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White House moves to protect some abortion patients’ records
STAT
APRIL 12, 2023
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday proposed a new federal rule to limit how law enforcement and state officials collect medical records if they investigate women who flee their home states to seek abortions elsewhere.
Opinion: Minimizing administrative harm: a key step to improving health care
STAT
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Late on a Friday, I sit reviewing some of my patients’ old medical records instead of heading home to be with my family. I’ll likely be doing it next Friday, and the one after that. This wasn’t my idea.
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Transgender patients sue VUMC for providing records to state attorney general
Fierce Healthcare
JULY 26, 2023
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was hit with a class action lawsuit this week by patients who said its decision to turn over the medical records of patients receiving gender-affirming c | A class action lawsuit argues Vanderbilt University Medical Center knew about state government's "active targeting of the transgender community" (..)
Investigation launched into alleged animal welfare violations at Neuralink
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 7, 2022
We only know Animal 20’s story because we sued @UCDavis for the medical records & are still engaged in a lawsuit to get access to photos and videos of these experiments. Without proper context, information from medical records and study data can be misleading.”. — Physicians Committee (@PCRM) November 30, 2022.
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STAT+: How experts think we can put health data back ‘in the hands of the patient’
STAT
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Two decades ago, the Bush administration threw a wrench in health data privacy, making it possible for many health care organizations to share medical information without patients’ consent so long as it was being used to improve treatment or streamline business operations. Today, the health data marketplace looks vastly different.
New technology to “unlock” NHS records to revolutionise how we take medicine
Pharmafile
JANUARY 11, 2023
Summary: London, UK - New technology which can “unlock” medication records has been awarded £1m in fresh funding by Innovate UK. London, UK - New technology which can “unlock” medication records has been awarded £1m in fresh funding by Innovate UK. Published date: 11/01/2023. read more.
Opinion: Most-read First Opinion essays of 2022
STAT
DECEMBER 29, 2022
But First Opinion authors also tackled other issues, like drug pricing, the dearth of funding for nutrition research, fixing the bias in health care-related artificial intelligence applications, personalizing the “death note” in medical records, and much, much more. Read the rest…
Pfizer is first big pharma to tap Truveta’s real-world data platform
pharmaphorum
JUNE 22, 2022
Truveta’s platform is based on electronic medical record data – updated daily – for more than 50 million people in the US, harvesting anonymised patient care information from tens of thousands of clinical care sites across 42 states.
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Beta-blocker use linked to higher CVD risk in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
AUGUST 15, 2023
The database includes demographic and lifestyle information such as smoking and alcohol consumption, medical diagnoses and procedures, together with prescribing information. Included patients were adults aged over 18 who had a diagnosis of OSA in their medical records.
NHS App could offer video consultations by 2024
pharmaphorum
JUNE 29, 2022
” From March 2023, more users of the app will be able to use it to message their GP, book COVID-19 vaccinations, check their medical records and manage hospital elective care appointments – assuming that their NHS trust is on board with the digital upgrade.
Can Hepatitis C drugs reduce symptoms of PTSD?
European Pharmaceutical Review
AUGUST 23, 2022
“At BUSPH, we have been working with our VA colleagues to look at PTSD symptom improvement in routine care using medical records for several years,” said Jaimie Gradus, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at BUSPH and co-principal investigator on the study.
How can real-world evidence support regulatory decision making?
European Pharmaceutical Review
JUNE 26, 2023
These contained mainly primary care medical records from European countries. Additionally, studies to inform the design and feasibility of clinical trials and clinical management were appraised too. There were 25 studies initiated by EMA by a team of pharmacoepidemiologists and data scientists using six databases.
NHS data sharing scheme “on hold” as millions opt out
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 23, 2021
The centralised database of medical records from 55 million people was first unveiled in May and due to come online on 1 July, but had its start date pushed back to 1 September after campaigners pushed back against the proposals. million in June – and a drive should be carried out to raise awareness of the scheme.
Thread, Eversana join forces on real-world data platform
pharmaphorum
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
The platform combines Eversana’s commercial services, electronic medical record (EMR) data, and RWD-driven recruitment capabilities with Thread’s platform for decentralised trials , which have come to the fore amid the social restrictions forced by the pandemic.
Higher road traffic noise over time linked to increased risk of developing hypertension
Hospital Pharmacy Europe
MARCH 30, 2023
The RTN level was estimated with common noise assessment methods and the development of hypertension through linkage with medical records. years, there were 21,140 cases of incident primary hypertension recorded. Over a median follow-up period of 8.1
Data privacy concerns don’t hinder digital health app usage
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The juli platform itself aggregates and analyses data from electronic medical records, smartphones, wearable devices, and the environment, as well as patient responses based on between three and five daily questions and bi-weekly clinically validated, disease-specific questionnaires.
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Rare disease: industry, patients and tech join forces on diagnosis
pharmaphorum
JULY 9, 2021
Together the organisations are developing algorithms for identifying Fabry and Gaucher patients through literature mining and machine learning to find likely undiagnosed cases in health registries and electronic medical records.
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Study finds Germany trails Spain and the US in digital health
pharmaphorum
MAY 24, 2021
All three nations said the introduction of digital medical records, the expansion of telemedicine services and the use of patient data for diagnosis are desirable outcomes of a digital health revolution, while around a third of people in each country are also in favour of greater use of wearable devices to harvest health data.
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Pride and Visibility: Perspective from a New Grad RN
InCrowd
JUNE 12, 2023
After taking report, I noticed the legal name attached to her medical record was not consistent with what I perceived as her gender expression. I had a patient in the ICU who was recovering from a serious infection.
Pain-detecting tool for dementia patients rolls out in UK
pharmaphorum
AUGUST 23, 2020
PainChek’s app – which emerged from research carried out at Curtin University in Western Australia – attempts to take some of the guesswork out of the diagnosis with an algorithm that gives a readout in real-time and can automatically update medical records in the cloud.
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NHS app downloads spike after COVID jab status update
pharmaphorum
JUNE 21, 2021
Users can also record the results of any recent coronavirus tests. The app rolled out in 2019 after being piloted in 30 GP practices across England, and can also be used to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions, and access medical records.
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AmerisourceBergen aims to make digital therapeutics access easier
pharmaphorum
JULY 27, 2022
AmerisourceBergen hopes to improve the delivery of DTx directly to patients through its new platform, which is designed to integrate with electronic medical records (EMR) and provide a catalogue of digital therapies and diagnostics for physicians to tap into.
Walmart follows CVS, Walgreens into clinical trial sector
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Walmart is accompanying the formation of the WHRI with the launch of a digital tool called MyHealthJourney, which will help patients take control of their own data by providing some medical records and insurance information in one place.
Personalized Medicine Requires a New Approach to Quality Control
Impact Pharmaceutical Services
JULY 7, 2023
As we continue to learn even more about individuals through genome sequencing and the integration of that data into medical records, personalized medicine has the potential to revolutionize the field.
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PharmStars digital health accelerator names its second class of 2022
pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 9, 2022
The 11 new graduates – which join 12 who completed the programme earlier in the year – are as follows: Biostrap , an Austin, Texas startup that has developed a biosensor-based digital biomarker platform for remote physiological monitoring; Lincoln, Massachusetts-based Celero Systems , pioneering an ingestible pill-like device that can discreetly monitor (..)
Roivant spinout Datavant merges with Ciox to form $7bn health data giant
pharmaphorum
JUNE 10, 2021
That will now be bundled with Ciox’ expertise in handling and analysing electronic medical records and generating real-world evidence (RWE) from clinical data.
How Advances in Cloud Computing Can Impact Big Data for Pharmacy
Omnicell
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
For example, in the acute care setting, most medication identification is driven by coding that originated in the electronic medical record (EMR), which is unique to a particular instance of that EMR. That said, normalization of that data is imperative, as inconsistency can lead to semantic dissonance.
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