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Electronic Health Records: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act, electronic health records have been widely adopted across healthcare organizations large and small. While there are many benefits to EHRs — improved accessibility to patient data, increased charge capture and improved preventative health — there are inherent problems in adopting this technology. Read More »
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'Hidden' Med School Curriculum Hurts Empathetic Care
With April research showing medical interns spend very little time directly caring for patients, medical education is getting more bad press. Read More »
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12 Ideas To Improve Development Research Access And Uptake
Our expert panel suggests how to ensure that research is open, accessible and still of high quality Read More »
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13 Things People Hate About Your Open Source Docs
Most open source developers like to think about the quality of the software they build, but the quality of the documentation is often forgotten. Nobody talks about how great a project’s docs are, and yet documentation has a direct impact on your project’s success. Without good documentation, people either do not use your project, or they do not enjoy using it... Read More »
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15 Ways To Screw Up An IT Project
Project management experts discuss sure-fire ways to delay or derail a project and--more importantly--how you can avoid these common project management pitfalls. Read More »
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15 Workplace Barriers To Better Code
Meetings, know-nothing managers, productivity metrics -- here's what's standing between you and the next generation of great software Read More »
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4 Deft Ways Hospitals Use Social Media
The Mayo Clinic ranks No. 1 for Twitter, with more than half a million followers. Cleveland Clinic is third on YouTube, with nearly 3 million views. And the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, Texas, ranks 30th on Flickr, with 115 Flickr photos. Read More »
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A Guide to Building Trust in Teams and Organizations
My travels globally have given me a feeling for how best to work in many different contexts—like Latin America, West Africa, North Africa, and Southeast Asia, to name a few. And I've found that I can more easily adapt my work style in these countries if I focus on something that plays a role in all of them: trust. In The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst mentions that accountability and meritocracy are both central components of open organizations. Trust is linked to both of those concepts. But the truth, I've found, is that many people don't have the information they need to determine whether they can trust a person or not. They need data, along with a system to evaluate that data and make decisions...
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Aid Workers Turn To Text Messaging To Improve Food Aid Delivery To Refugees In The Western Sahara
Communication between beneficiaries and food aid providers in the Western Sahara refugee camps in Algeria suffers as the number of food distribution points increases. Read More »
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AMGA Defines High-Performing Health Systems
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced Thursday its definition of high-performing health systems. Leaders of the trade association said they issued the definition to educate legislators and the public about the need for meaningful change to improve patient care. Read More »
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An Overview Of The AHRQ Patient Engagement Guide
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its patient engagement guide on July 8. The insights contained in the Guide to Patient and Family Engagement in Hospital Safety and Quality were field tested at 3 medium-sized hospitals across the country. Read More »
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Beyond Disney And Tinkerbell: Moving The Needle On Stuck Patient Satisfaction Scores
I've heard countless hospital executives say it: They worked their butts off to improve patient satisfaction scores at their organization and those efforts paid off. They moved the needle … until the needle got stuck. Read More »
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BMW Hopes To Get The Connected Car Up To Speed With ‘Webinos’
The car has been called “the fourth screen” for internet-connected content. But even for high-performance brands like BMW, adapting the car to keep up with the fast pace of mobile computing has been a slow and complicated process. The luxury automaker plans to bring automotive technology up to speed and in sync with smartphones, computers and tablets by leveraging an EU-funded project called “webinos.” Read More »
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Build Your Own Internet With Mobile Mesh Networking
Software can let smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and other hardware link up without centralized Internet service. Read More »
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Can Software Save Lives?
The New York Times recently reported the death of a 12-year-old boy after being discharged from a hospital emergency room...At Axial, we strive for a solution to improve these situations, and we believe part of the answer lies in technology that improves timely, important communication amongst healthcare professionals and the education of patients and their caregivers. Read More »
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