The Asymptomatic Patient With Abnormal Laboratory Test Results

Health IT Information Technology

Why Health IT?   Health information technology (Health IT) makes it possible for health care providers to better manage patient care through secure use and sharing of health information - e...

MediciGlobal is a specialty patient recruitment-retention organization serving the clinical trials industry

MediciGlobal is a specialty patient recruitment-retention organization serving the clinical trials industry. For more than two decades, the company has led the industry in developing innovative p...

PATHSEEK

Sequencing platforms in diagnostic laboratories may aid both patient management by detecting resistance associated mutations, and public health measures, by determining phylogenetic relationships be...

Ventricular aneurysm

Ventricular aneurysms are usually aftereffects of myocardial infarctions. When the heart muscle (cardiac muscle) partially dies during a heart attack, a layer of muscle may survive, and being severe...

Patient perspectives: Donna Cryer

Are patient advocacy organisations fully embracing the potential of digital tools? E-patient Donna Cryer discusses in this patient perspective interview. Our series exploring the patient journey cont...

PPAHS releases safety checklist that targets Patient-Controlled Analgesia

The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS), an advocacy group devoted to improving patient health and safety, today announced the release of a concise checklist that reminds caregivers...

Next Step in Patient Portals: Secure Messaging and Administrative Functions

I have come to believe that patient portals in particular and patient access to clinical data in general are major steps toward patient empowerment. They also pose a challenge to the departments respo...

Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety Announces New Expert Checklist for Facilitating Safety of Hospital-Based Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia Pumps

CHICAGO, July 17, 2012 /- The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS), an advocacy group devoted to improving patient health and safety, today announced the release of a concise che...

Patient Prompt Announces Advanced Text Messaging Functionality at 2013 Annual AMGA in Orlando, Florida

(PRWEB) March 14, 2013 Patient Prompt®, the leader in innovative patient communication technology, has developed a unique way of identifying whether a patient phone number is a mobile or landl...

Table: Patient focus, round one

FDA's starting lineup Patient focus, round one Under PDUFA V, FDA committed to hold a series of meetings to obtain patient input on 20 diseases as part of the agency's Patient-Focused Drug Development...

Why Patient Engagement Really Does Matter and Why So Many People Are Getting It Wrong

By Rob Lamberts, MD “Patient engagement.” What is “Patient Engagement?” It sounds like a season of “The Bachelor” where a doctor dates hot patients. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was. Af...

Survival following heart transplantation associated with several patient characteristics

Survival following heart transplantation is associated with several patient characteristics, including patient education, higher social and economic satisfaction, and patient adherence with medication...

Patient-centered medicine: a physician's challenge.

The success of the biological and technical driven medicine is eminent. This disease-centered medicine however requires as a supplement and balance patient-centered medicine, which embraces the perspe...

Patient knowledge of their own illness: How much does it matter and how may we adapt our information to what the patient knows?

Multilayered approach to patient safety culture.

Background The concept of patient safety culture (PSC) has increasingly been used in the development of patient safety. However, no theoretical framework on the nature of the underlying phenomenon has...

Why the nation needs a policy push on patient-centered health care.

The phrase "patient-centered care" is in vogue, but its meaning is poorly understood. This article describes patient-centered care, why it matters, and how policy makers can advance it in practice. Ul...

A system model of work flow in the patient room of hospital emergency department.

Modeling and analysis of patient flow in hospital emergency department (ED) is of significant importance. In a hospital ED, the patients spend most of their time in the patient room and most of the ca...