White Papers & Studies
Driving Safer Medication Use During Pregnancy and Lactation
Explores how better outcomes can arise for pregnant and lactating women who need prescription medication when pharmacists and prescribers are armed with point-of-care access to clinical decision support to determine which agents should or should not be prescribed.
Easing the Transition to ICD-10
Offers a close look into the hurdles for hospitals and financial impacts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ October 1, 2013 deadline for moving to ICD-10 codes and gives advice on how to overcome challenges and reap the benefits.
Use of Evidence-Based Resources by Clinicians Improves Patient Outcomes
Discusses the potentially serious implications on quality of care based on physicians’ inability to keep up with the vast array of evolving medical knowledge and offers solutions for leveraging evidence-based medicine at the point of care with patients.
Time, Technology is Right for ASCs to Transition to Paperless Environment
Demonstrates the benefits for ambulatory surgery centers of adopting EHRs and other technologies that will allow them to go paperless, including potential annual savings of $10,000 and higher per provider.
ASCs Leverage Technology Data to Deliver Better Patient Outcomes
Illustrates the importance of capturing, tracking and reporting key quality indicators and outcomes data to drive clinical and operational rewards and gain the ability to benchmark against local and national competitors.
Answering Clinical Questions Improves Patient Safety and Saves Money
Demonstrates the importance for physicians of having the right clinical information system and the ability to answer clinical questions as they arise, which could lead to some 40 percent of management decisions being changed, improving patient care.
Combating Alert Fatigue to Improve Clinical Adoption of and Satisfaction with CDS and CPOE
Covers the important topic of alert fatigue, in which clinicians are inundated with medication order alerts, contributing to low adoption rates that impact hospitals’ returns on technology investments and resulting in widespread national health IT implications.