Three-quarters of patients who obtained healthcare virtually during the pandemic said they want it to be a standard part of care in the future. The result lends weight to the ongoing conversation around telehealth. A Kyruus survey of 1,000 patients found that more than 75% said they were very or completely satisfied with the virtual care they’d received, […]
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found a “plateau” in the growth of telemedicine visits, accounting for a relatively small percentage of rebounding ambulatory care services. As states experiment with reopening – and re-closing – their economies in response to concerns around coronavirus, continuing attention has been paid to skyrocketing rates of telehealth visits. […]
A study conducted by clinicians from KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and researchers at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), which evaluated and demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of a KKH-developed novel clinical protocol to screen and triage women with threatened miscarriages, has been published in the journal, Scientific Reports. In the novel clinical […]
Overuse or misuse of antibiotics in hospital settings is a global problem, fueling one of the most serious public health threats: antimicrobial resistance. An estimated 20 per cent to 50 per cent of acute care hospitals worldwide are not prescribing antibiotics appropriately. As a result, micro-organisms become resistant to antimicrobials, including antibiotics, and can become […]
Wolters Kluwer Health and Nuance Communications have joined forces to enable clinicians with easier access evidence-based clinical decision support via Nuance Dragon Medical One’s voice assistant capabilities. WHY IT MATTERS Through the partnership, providers now have voice-enabled access to relevant topics in Wolters Kluwer’s UpToDate CDS resource, with Dragon Medical One’s natural language processing capabilities. […]
A team of Penn State researchers developed a first-of-its-kind clinical trial to test the use of exercise as a treatment for patients with a severe form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the leading cause of chronic liver disease in the United States. People with this disease have an extra fat […]
Social media is an integral part of medicine, and an increasingly important conduit for sharing information about clinical trials. In an article in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, researchers from SWOG Cancer Research Network pose provocative questions aimed at sparking discussion and creating consensus on how cancer clinical trial stakeholders can best interact on social platforms. […]
Medication safety problems are a leading cause of injury and preventable harm in a hospital-based setting. Although electronic health records that include computerized physician-order entry and clinical-decision support can help to protect patients from adverse events, a new study finds that many EHR safety issues still remain. The study, conducted by researchers from the University […]
A Frankfurt-based team of researchers has found out, such as Sars-CoV changed to 2 human cells, and a weak point in his mechanism identified. In the United States and Canada to start on the Basis of the findings even clinical studies for a possible active ingredient. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Frankfurt has found […]
In March, someone in Seattle became the first person in the United States to take an experimental dose of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Doctors injected 45 healthy people as part of a clinical trial they hope will protect people from a virus that has killed tens of thousands and upended normalcy […]
