by Keri McDermott | Apr 30, 2019 | Archived
Hypertension or High Blood Pressure increases your risk of dangerous health conditions, like heart attack, stroke and heart failure. Lifestyle changes, such as increasing physical activity might lower your risk for developing hypertension. During National High Blood...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 30, 2019 | Archived
Health Leaders recently reported that a new discharge checklist to improve discharge summaries and medication reconciliation implemented at the Cleveland Clinic increased the main campus’ completion rate for medication reconciliation from 88% to 98.7% and increased...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 29, 2019 | Archived
Strokes are happening at younger ages and statistics show increasing rates for the 45-64 age group. High blood pressure is one of the risk factors for stroke, along with high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes. Given the connection, National Stroke Awareness and...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 23, 2019 | Archived
Several residents at Platte Health Care Avera are enjoying the benefits of individualized music playlists thanks to the Music & Memory ® South Dakota program. The program can assist in many areas including decreased use of anti-psychotic medications and depression...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 22, 2019 | Archived
Fewer Errors Seen in Computerized Prescribing System That Selects Medications Based on Indications A Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system that incorporated drug indications into prescription ordering workflows improved clinicians’ efficiency and...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 22, 2019 | Archived
New App Eases Patient-Doctor Communication During Office Visits A new free mobile app from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) aims to help patients prepare questions for their next physician appointment. The app, QuestionBuilder, then helps the...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 16, 2019 | Archived
Healthcare is personal. Any individual in need of healthcare services becomes vulnerable. The level of comfort and confidence relayed by healthcare professionals at every stage of care can impact positive health outcomes. Long waits, big words and confusing bills...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 16, 2019 | Archived
How are immunizations, antibiotics and sepsis related and how might this impact you? Dr. Steven Q. Simpson, Dr. Trevor Van Schooneveld and Dr. Archana Chatterjee discussed the connection of these topics and identified the provider community’s role in...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 9, 2019 | Archived
Each year approximately 42,000 adults die from vaccine preventable diseases. Ongoing surges of negative social media messages increase fear of negative health outcomes causing parents/patients to question the need for vaccines. This uncertainty has been identified as...
by Keri McDermott | Apr 3, 2019 | Archived
American Indians and Alaska Natives born today have a life expectancy of five and a half years shorter than other race populations in the United States (73.0 years to 78.5 years, respectively). The Partnership to Advance Tribal Health (PATH) team partners with Indian...
