Tag Archives: Patient

Bassett Healthcare Network, Optum partner to advance quality care, better patient experiences

Photo: Martin Barraud/Getty Images Hospital operator Bassett Healthcare Network in Cooperstown, New York is collaborating with Optum on the former’s clinical and operational performance, in a partnership focused on quality, affordable healthcare for patients across central New York, the organizations announced this week. Optum will provide Bassett Healthcare Network with a range of services including… Read More »

Safeguarding Physician & Patient Satisfaction While Integrating EMR Solutions with Other Clinical Applications

Whether in the cloud or on-premise, most health systems and hospitals have realized that integrating their clinical applications like telemedicine and EMR solutions is essential. But, like any integration or digital transformation, this one is only as valuable as it is stable. In this webinar, we’ll speak to leaders who have made progress joining these… Read More »

The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them. ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute… Read More »

The Buenos Aires patient: Argentinian woman controls HIV for at least 12 years after stopping treatment

An Argentinian woman, now in her 50s, has controlled HIV below the limits of detection since stopping HIV treatment due to side-effects in 2007, researchers from Buenos Aires and the US National Institutes of Health report. The woman no longer has antibodies to HIV and researchers found only a small number of cells containing HIV… Read More »

New drug prolongs ALS patient survival in trial

An experimental medication that was recently shown to slow the progression of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has now demonstrated the potential to also prolong patient survival. The findings come from a clinical trial conducted by investigators at the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Harvard-afilliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)… Read More »