The repeal of the Affordable Care Act and its replacement with the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is underway. The bill has a long way to go before becoming law, and is facing opposition from both parties, albeit for differing reasons. It has also faced criticism from several medical and professional associations across the country,
Mobile health, also known as mHealth, is a rapidly growing area of healthcare. The term refers to the use of mobile devices in medicine and public health. Medical apps aren’t particularly new, but until recently they’ve been targeted primarily towards patients; they focus on diets or medicine, or allow patients to record heart rate, blood sugar
As the field of outcomes research has developed in the last decade, surgeons and hospitals have become aware that post-operative adverse events are common. These events contribute greatly to the increasing and already significant cost of healthcare [1]. In order to improve healthcare and assess the effectiveness of a surgery or program, hospitals must measure post-operative
In healthcare improving efficiency without negatively impacting patient outcomes is paramount. Finding more efficient workflows is critical not just to improving the patient experience but also to reducing costs and waste. Synoptic reporting has been consistently shown to be a faster, cheaper, and more accurate method of reporting than narrative transcription [1]. By providing consistently
Modern medicine collects an enormous amount of valuable data. Unfortunately the traditional method of narrative reporting, while effective at gathering information, doesn’t lend itself to easy analysis. Someone has to actually read the report and extract the relevant data, which is expensive and time-consuming. Narrative data enters the system and all a doctor has to
