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How blockchain can revolutionise medical records and save lives

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If appropriately implemented, blockchain-based medical records systems of tomorrow could be far more accurate, secure and accessible than the one-size-fits-all approach applied to today’s electronic health records, all while putting additional power back in the hands of the patients. The state of medical records today.

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Hospital pharmacist-led re-evaluation of medication errors: a pilot study

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Karl-Johan Lindner and Marie Halvarsson, from the pharmacy at Västerås Hospital in Sweden, describe a new approach to improve the categorisation of medication errors that uses the skills of hospital pharmacists to reclassify reported incidents based on a given medication process. One million injections or infusions and 1.7

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STAT+: AI health care companies say they’ll keep humans in the loop. But what does that actually mean?

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A flurry of AI-guided ambient documentation startups can rapidly transcribe and summarize patient visits and populate patients’ medical charts, but they require doctors and nurses to OK the generated entries first.

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Connecting with Patients at Home

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In this position, she works with patients in the comfort of their homes after being discharged from a hospital setting. The MIH-CP is a patient-centered program that provides a broad range of health services to high-risk patients in the comfort of their homes after they’ve been discharged from the hospital.

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Taking stock of NHS medicines optimisation

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Between 5-10% of all hospital admissions are medicines-related and around two-thirds of these are preventable. The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust has used electronic medical records to document and share medicines decisions with GP practices and community pharmacies. At around £20.9 increase from the previous year.

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What is medical power of attorney?

The Checkup by Singlecare

How a medical power of attorney works Before you create a medical power of attorney, you need to choose who will act as your healthcare proxy or agent. This person may go by other names in the document, depending on the state you live in. If you need to begin with just one option, prioritize the living will.

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Pharmacy united in the recovery of healthcare

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The Brighton-Lusaka Health Link (BLHL) drew on expertise from Brighton and Sussex hospitals and medical school to develop and pilot a hub and spoke model to enhance AMS in tertiary hospitals in Zambia. Accompanying leaflets for patients have been developed and also digital versions of the documentation. Gorton HC et al.