Health
Minor sleep loss can put your job at risk
Losing just 16 minutes of sleep could be the difference between a clear-headed day at the office or one filled with distractions.
Apr 23, 2019
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News tagged with health information technology
Health
Clinic notes should be re-engineered to meet needs of physicians
When physicians prepare for patient visits, one of their first steps is to review clinic notes or health records that recap their patients' medical history. Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical ...
Aug 31, 2015
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Health
Patient care can improve with technology in nursing homes
A significant part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act was the $25 billion invested in health information technology (IT) to improve quality, safety, efficiency in health care while also reducing health disparities. ...
Sep 1, 2016
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Medical research
Interactive websites may cause antismoking messages to backfire
Health communicators should carefully choose interactive features for their websites because tools that can make some websites more engaging for some audiences could actually discourage other users from adopting healthy behaviors, ...
Feb 6, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Tapping into electronic health records to improve care for patients with chronic kidney disease
Experts have identified strategies for using electronic health records to improve care for patients with chronic kidney disease. The guidance, which will appear in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American ...
Jun 25, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Avoiding care during the pandemic could mean life or death
These days, Los Angeles acting teacher Deryn Warren balances her pain with her fear. She's a bladder cancer patient who broke her wrist in November. She still needs physical therapy for her wrist, and she's months late for ...
Aug 14, 2020
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Health informatics
Experts propose policies for safer electronic health records
Developers of electronic health records (EHR) should create or modify their products to ensure that health care organizations can meet safety recommendations of the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides, ...
Sep 10, 2021
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Health
Digital divide exists with physician EHR adoption
(HealthDay)—The majority of physicians remain reluctant to adopt health information technology (HIT), according to a report by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
May 20, 2013
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Health
The path forward for making electronic health records more usable
Over the past decade both clinicians and researchers have increasingly discovered that electronic health records are not always user friendly and may result in unintended consequences that compromise patient safety. In a ...
Feb 5, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Avatars may help elicit embarrassing information
People would rather give information to other people, although an anonymous avatar might be preferred if the information being shared is embarrassing, University of Otago research has found.
Sep 6, 2021
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