A recent study published in American Academy of Pediatrics found that providing Asthma patients with medication before they left the hospital reduced ER re-admission rates, as opposed to the standard method of relying on patients to fill their own prescriptions. Medication adherence is a topic that we talk a lot about because of the significant impact […]
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Solving Emergency Room Wait-Time Angst
Microsoft’s Dr Bill Crounse (@MicrosoftMD) has a weekly online show “Health Tech Today” featuring innovative Healthcare solutions enabled by technology. The most recent episode included the video below demonstrating how a hospital can leverage information from their EMR to help to provide information to patients on their expected Emergency Room wait-time. This is currently in […]