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Healthcare quality and safety require that the right information be available at the right time to support patient care and health system management decisions. Gaining consensus on essential data content and documentation standards is a necessary prerequisite for high-quality data in the interconnected healthcare system of the future.
TeamHealth was founded in Knoxville in 1979 by Dr. Lynn Massingale. [4] [5] The company began as Southeastern Emergency Physicians, the predecessor to TeamHealth, when Dr. Massingale, then an emergency medicine physician at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, earned the staffing contract in the emergency department at the medical center. [6]
Consequently, personal health record systems are becoming more common and available. In 2012, 57 percent of providers already had a patient portal. [9] At present, individual health data are located primarily on paper in physicians' files. Patient portals have been developed to give patients better access to their information.
In 2011, the company was the subject of an investigative report looking at the use of hospitalists in San Antonio area hospitals and at the death of a patient under an IPC physician's care. [6] A 2013 article published by JAMA raised concerns about the quality of care provided by hospitalists with excessive workloads. [7] [8]
The PAS records the patient's demographics (e.g. name, home address, date of birth) and details all patient contact with the hospital, both outpatient and inpatient. [ 1 ] PAS systems are often criticised for providing only administrative functionality to hospitals, however attempts to provide more clinical and operational functionality have ...
Interactive patient care (IPC) refers to an approach in health care that places the emphasis on providing entertainment and educational resources to the patient bedside via the in-room TV. However, momentum is growing for IPC to include more patient-facing interfaces such as mobile, Smart TV , and social applications as well as the self-service ...
Regulation of patient management software applies to anyone importing, distributing or selling the software. Health Canada is responsible for regulating the sale, advertising and distribution of patient management software in Canada. Regulated software is classified based on risk increasing from Class I to Class II. [5]
The generic model used in the United States is the chronic care model, which holds that health care does not only involve change in the patient and that high-quality disease care counts the community, the health system, self-management support, delivery system design, decision support, and clinical information systems as important elements in ...