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Why Good communication Matters in Healthcare

Practice Builders

Clear communication protocols reduce the time spent coordinating decisions and repeating tests. Poor communication between shifts or departments can result in duplicate tests or delayed therapy, which frustrates patients. This is necessary when a patient is transferred to another hospital for further treatment or for other reasons.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Contributing factors for these diagnosis-related claims included the failure of an NP to order a diagnostic/lab test to establish a diagnosis, failure to obtain a complete history and physical of the patient, and failure to refer a patient to higher level care. The patient was transferred to the ED and diagnosed with sepsis.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Using digital tech has improved consumers’ experiences with health care providers across a range of tasks: 53% told Philips it’s easier to schedule appointments, 47% think it’s easier to get test results, 42% receive appointment reminders, and 27% are able to monitor health indicators on their own.

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A Comprehensive Guide To APIs In Healthcare

Arkenea

FHIR uses REST (Representational State Transfer) as the basis of API and for data transfer. Drawback of APIs in healthcare is the lack of design, proper testing, and monitoring tools. Application programming interfaces allow information systems to streamline communication and transfer data.

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The Complete Know How on EMR API Integration

Arkenea

EMR software conveniently offers access to medical records, helps with appointments, and generates billing. With EMR API integration, organizations can streamline billing, appointment booking, and more such processes. To streamline admin tasks such as medical billing, appointment scheduling, and paperwork. Here’s how it is done.

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Interoperability In Healthcare: What You Must Know

Arkenea

HIE is part of an architecture that connects multiple applications and enables them to transfer data. In this situation, translating a particular LOINC code that captures an observation or test to CPT can be complicated. Sometimes doctors also require sending lab tests of patients to one another.

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ePrescription Software Development – Detailed Outlook

Arkenea

NCPDP SCRIPT is the e-prescribing standard created to facilitate data transfer between prescribers, pharmacies, payers, physicians, and intermediaries. This eventually reduces costs of documentation and duplication of tests (in case medical papers are misplaced). The pharmacist receives the e-prescription and places an order.