How to Help Your Fellow Nurses Deal with Disaster Relief
The American Nurses Foundation is collecting donations to support nurses in their disaster response and recovery following the recent hurricanes.
Keys to Successful EHR Selection in a Value-Based Care System
Providers need to find health IT companies offering a high degree of usability and integrated solutions during the EHR selection process for value-based care success.
Uninsured Rate Falls To Record Low Of 8.8%
The latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau showed the nation’s uninsured rate dropped to 8.8 percent. It had been 9.1 percent in 2015.
PCPs Spend More than Half of Workdays Interacting with EHRs
A new study of 142 family medicine physicians shows they spend an exorbitant amount of their day on clerical or administrative tasks.
When Insurers Save, Patients and Doctors Pay
As insurers ratchet up utilization management, doctors’ paperwork burden increases and patients must jump through endless administrative hoops to access care.
5 Things You Shouldn’t Call NPs or PAs
Use of slang like mid-level and extender contribute to a public misunderstanding of our role; they imply a need for dependence on physicians, and they obfuscate the uniqueness of our profession.
States Lift More Hurdles To Physician Assistants
Like nurse practitioners, barriers to PAs are falling for a variety of reasons, including a doctor shortage and general comfort patients have with being treated by someone other than a physician.
Teaching Health Delivery Science in the Digital Age
from The Health Care Blog
Our health system is facing an existential crisis. We’re not alone. As the largest hospital in the western United States and a member of the 2016-17 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll, Cedars-Sinai Medica…
Natural Disasters Make Strong Case for EHRs
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and the devastation they have brought with them, serve as glaring reminders for how beneficial EHRs can be in a crisis. Is your hospital prepared?
Nurses Rally Behind Nurse Arrested for Protecting Her Patient’s Rights
Last week, a disturbing video came to light in which a Utah charge nurse, Alex Wubbels, was arrested for refusing to draw the blood of an unconscious patient at the request of Salt Lake police detective Jeff Payne. As Payne did not have a warrant …