With COVID comes solitude and separation. In a hospital setting it often means no family or friends. This has had profound impacts on care and reminds me of why it’s so important to have loved ones near. Not just for the traditional reason: because patients and their...
It’s Friday night, and I just finished up another long day of virtual meetings ending with one where I failed to explain something that I believe to be obvious, so I’m opening a bottle of wine and reflecting. How did this become standard practice? Clinicians in...
The Sharp Index, a non-profit dedicated to reducing physician suicide through awareness and data science, recently recognized CareAlign CEO Subha Airan-Javia, MD with the ‘Best Health Tech Innovator’ award for physician burnout and suicide prevention.
Our mission has always been to bring patients and providers closer together through better designed technology. Making it easier for clinicians to #DoTheRightThing and enabling them to focus on patient care – is at the top of our priority list. Today, as we transition...
Perhaps the biggest opportunity for improvement and reduction in error, is redesigning how clinicians communicate. Medicine is a team effort yet our tools are focused on the individual. When we take a step back and evaluate the systems through which healthcare workers communicate with each other, we are able to understand the gaps:
Perhaps the biggest opportunity for improvement and reduction in error, is redesigning how clinicians communicate. Medicine is a team effort yet our tools are focused on the individual. When we take a step back and evaluate the systems through which healthcare workers communicate with each other, we are able to understand the gaps:
Recent Research has shown that an alarming number of medical errors are based on communication gaps, either while taking patient history or during handoffs between care providers. In 2015, a benchmarking study conducted by CRICO (The Controlled Risk Insurance Company , providing coverage to Harvard affiliated medical organizations and their physicians) found that communication errors were responsible for over 1,700 deaths as well as additional costs of $ 1.7 billion, to the healthcare system.
I quickly realized the difference between my daily tech and health tech: the applications that I use in my daily life are built for me, the end-user. The technology that I use as a physician—the EHR—was built to satisfy the business of healthcare. Not the delivery of care.
Recently, TrekIT Health took a major step toward firming up its executive leadership team and governance structure. Veteran tech executive Rick Valencia has been appointed Executive Chairman of the company, advising and supporting strategic decision-making. The...