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Cardinal Health…announced the introduction of the Adherence Advantage program, which features an expanded suite of solutions designed to help retail pharmacies improve medication adherence…

1. Cardinal Health Repackaging Solutions
2. Consumer adherence products
3. Dispill
4. Pharmacy Health Connect
5. Reimbursement Consulting Services

None of the 60 hospitals in Nevada met the standards for strong performance needed to make the..Best Hospitals rankings for 2015-16. Renown Regional Medical Center..was recognized last year for exceeding key quality measures…In Southern Nevada, most of the acute care hospitals were rated average in the five common procedures studied.

Young professionals see greater opportunity to disrupt care from outside provider organizations..."Dropout docs" are becoming more common, especially around Silicon Valley, as an increasing number...forego residency for digital health opportunities,...lowest rates of medical students pursing residency after medical school,...

more than one-third of US adults regularly using the Internet to self-diagnose, there has been a proliferation of online symptom checkers offering streamlined medical advice....it is important for pharmacists to remind patients that online symptom checkers are by no means conclusive,...helpful to offer advice about which ones may be most useful.

1. Symcat – 71% accurate
2. Isabel – 69% accurate
3. AskMD – 68% accurate
4. DocResponse – 67% accurate
5. iTriage – 64% accurate
6. Mayo Clinic – 59% accurate
7. FamilyDoctor – 56% accurate
8. Healthline – 53% accurate
9. HMS Family Health Guide – 52% accurate
10. WebMD – 51% accurate

Athenahealth today unveiled athenaText, a secure text messaging service integrated with athenahealth’s cloud-based EHR platform. It is available free…to every healthcare professional across the country. (HIPAA compliant text messaging)

After a medical error, employees may suffer from anxiety, shame and depression...can progress to post-traumatic stress syndrome,...hospitals need to provide support for stressed employees,... because without such help, they are more likely to make mistakes on the job or leave their positions.

Public-private partnership would initially be federally funded...new Health IT Safety Center Roadmap lays out a...plan for creating a federal center focused on aggregating data on health IT-related adverse events. "The task force did not propose for the center to have a regulatory function, but to promote health IT safety by convening interested parties, doing focused work to identify and disseminate best practices,…"

Healthcare Management Systems Modernization program is spending $11 billion to transition to a new EHR system, which will support more than 9.7 million beneficiaries,...The current EHR system serves patients and clinicians in 2,300 locations around the world,.." Our primary goal is to support our medical teams and administrators...with reliable tools to support patient safety, high quality care and access to care when they need it,"...

Fewer than 15 percent of healthcare workers comply with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendations for removing personal protective equipment ,… Correct removal is crucial to reduce contamination...

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