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On January 11, 2023, Cureatr was recognized in the first-ever Muse VIBE Awards 2022 as Best Company ...
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NEW YORK, NY., Dec 14, 2022 -- The entire Cureatr team is thrilled to welcome Tracy E. Tracy, JD, ...
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Cureatr, Inc., a new kind of clinical provider, using progressive healthcare data, technology, ...
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How do you know the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) takes medication ...
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Q&A with Cureatr Chief Financial Officer Rob Dilling Cureatr recently announced it achieved ...
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Q&A With Gregory Downing, DO, Ph.D., Chief Clinical Officer of Cureatr In late July, the ...
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HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification validates Cureatr is committed to meeting key regulations ...
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NEW YORK, NY., Sep 6, 2022 -- Today, Cureatr announced that Aerste Howells has been named Chief ...
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A Kaiser Family Foundation report notes that for 2022, the average Medicare beneficiary has access ...
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Here are some of the most important news reports published in July to inform you about the most ...
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Perspectives From Cureatr's Richard Resnick Cureatr's CEO Richard Resnick recently appeared on the ...
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Resnick identifies the challenges associated with patient discharges, transitions of care, and ...
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Transitions of care (TOC) have emerged in recent years as an area of high vulnerability for ...
Care Coordination
In its 2018 update to the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®), the National ...
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Transitions of care have long been an area of concern in addressing the continuity and quality of ...
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Vidhi Patel, PharmD, BCPS, is a Clinical Pharmacist with Cureatr. In this position, she provides ...
Company Culture
Aaron Adams, PharmD, MBA, is a Clinical Pharmacist with Cureatr. In this position, he provides ...
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The Cureatr Clinic PGY-2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Program will start in July with two ...
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Cureatr recently announced the launch of the Cureatr Clinic PGY-2 Ambulatory Care Pharmacy ...
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Meghan Smart, PharmD, BCMTMS, INHC, RYT, is a Clinical Pharmacist with Cureatr. In this position, ...
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It's American Heart Month, a time when there is increased attention paid to cardiovascular health ...
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Cureatr will be attending RISE National 2022 from March 7–9 in Nashville. Here’s why! Cureatr ...
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In its 2022 update to the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®), the National ...
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Transitions of care — defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as "The ...
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When the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) issued its 2022 update to the Healthcare ...
Medication Management
Mistakes in the medications patients take are in many ways a hidden patient safety problem. Data ...
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Richard Resnick is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Cureatr, a medication management ...
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Company Culture
Gregory Downing, DO, PhD, is the Chief Clinical Officer of Cureatr, a medication management ...
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Zarah Mayewski, PharmD, BCPPS, is the Director of Cureatr Clinic. In this position, she leads ...
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As we approach the end of 2021, it's a good time to look back on the year and identify some of the ...
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Cureatr launches updated website to deliver a more valuable user experience, address key market ...
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Medication Management
The chronic disease crisis in the United States was already on a rapid rise before 2020. Then ...
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Tatiana Wright, PharmD, is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist with Cureatr. In this position, she ...
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We've had a lot to say about medication adherence over the years. So much, in fact, that we created ...
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Company Culture
Tram Thai, PharmD, BCACP, AE-C, is a clinical pharmacist with Cureatr. In this position, she is ...
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The Healthy People initiative — a national effort that sets goals and objectives to improve the ...
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The top reason a healthcare organization should work to improve its medication management program ...
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Medication Reconciliation
In 1975, the work of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) officially began. Six years ...
Medication Reconciliation
In 2002 The Joint Commission established the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) program. The ...
Medication Management
A while back, we compared medication therapy management (MTM) and comprehensive medication ...
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We have a bone to pick with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On this webpage, ...
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Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the brisk pace of the emergency department (ED) already made it a ...
Medication Management
If you've come to this blog to get an answer to the question, "What is medication therapy ...
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Medication Reconciliation
More than 15 years after The Joint Commission established medication reconciliation as a National ...
Medication Reconciliation
At Cureatr, one of our areas of focus is medication reconciliation post-discharge (MRP). It's a ...
Medication Reconciliation
Medication reconciliation has been a subject of significant importance for many years, considering ...
Medication Reconciliation
"Bring your meds." It's a ubiquitous instruction by admissions and medical office staff when ...
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Medication Reconciliation
Looking to improve your organization's medication reconciliation process? You've come to the right ...
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Kim Barron Buckner is an experienced product manager who was recently named a Product Manager at ...
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In 2005, The Joint Commission added medication reconciliation as a National Patient Safety Goal ...
Medication Reconciliation
In recent blogs, we've highlighted the importance of effective medication reconciliation, noting ...
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Company Culture
Learn more about Tram Thai, Cureatr's Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, who is responsible for ...
Medication Reconciliation
On the surface, the concept of medication reconciliation seems quite simple. It can be defined as ...
Medication Reconciliation
Just how important is medication reconciliation? A regularly referenced survey shows that ...
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Valerie Iwinski is a business and healthcare industry veteran who was recently named Cureatr's ...
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The results of a recent study published in JAMA have further shined the spotlight on the risks ...
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Zarina Shameer is a veteran software engineer who was recently named Cureatr's vice president of ...
Polypharmacy
Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of patients taking ...
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Morgan Beschle is a digital health product leader who was recently named Cureatr's vice president ...
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Polypharmacy
People of any age can be a "polypharmacy patient," which is typically defined as one who takes five ...
COVID-19
We've been discussing polypharmacy at length in recent blogs, touching on everything from ...
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February may be a shorter month, but there was no lack of news concerning medication management, ...
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Cureatr, Inc. expands executive leadership team to address rapid expansion of its tech-enabled ...
Polypharmacy
While polypharmacy has received increased attention in recent years, the term has been in use for ...
Polypharmacy
In a recent blog, we looked at various definitions for polypharmacy and then summarized the risks ...
Polypharmacy
Polypharmacy has been described as a "global risk factor for elderly people" and for good reason: ...
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Cureatr funds student enrichment program aimed at broadening awareness of the pharmacy and health ...
Medication Adherence
A few weeks have passed since the end of 2020, and what a year it was. What occurred last year will ...
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Richard Resnick is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Cureatr, a medication ...
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Cureatr News
Richard Resnick is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Cureatr, a comprehensive medication ...
Medication Adherence
As we approach the end of 2020, let's look back at nine of the most significant facts and figures ...
Polypharmacy
For years, clinicians and medication experts have sounded the alarm on polypharmacy, which is ...
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Ben Rooks is a healthcare information technology (IT) expert recently named to Cureatr's Strategic ...
Telepharmacy
Telepharmacy is a rapidly emerging field that has the potential to transform and improve the ...
Medication Adherence
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Telepharmacy
Thinking about launching a telepharmacy program but are unsure what you need to do? In this blog, ...
Telepharmacy
As the title indicates, we'll be discussing telepharmacy benefits and drawbacks in this blog. While ...
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Cureatr News
James Jorgenson, RPh, MS, FASHP, is a pharmacy expert recently named to Cureatr's Strategic ...
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Gregory Downing, DO, PharmD, PhD, is a healthcare innovation and public policy expert recently ...
Telepharmacy
Telepharmacy will celebrate its 20th birthday next year, and yet the concept was still considered a ...
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Cureatr News
Terry McInnis, MD, MPH, CPE, is one of the leading healthcare experts recently named to Cureatr's ...
Telepharmacy
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed telehealth seemingly overnight. A large majority of U.S. ...
Telepharmacy
Telepharmacy, sometimes referred to as "remote pharmacy," is receiving increased attention these ...
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Telepharmacy
In 2018, an article in Perspectives in Health Information Management, the research journal of the ...
Medication Adherence
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Telepharmacy
Whether you've heard nothing, a little, or even quite a bit about telepharmacy, I'm going to make a ...
Telehealth
In the coming months and years, we expect you will be hearing a lot more about telepharmacy. While ...
Medication Adherence
To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...
Telepharmacy
In a recent blog, we discussed a few of the most significant ways pharmacists could further aid in ...
Telehealth
About a year ago, we published a blog discussing the difference between telemedicine and ...
COVID-19
During a crisis like such as the one we are experiencing with the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare ...
Medication Adherence
To help keep you informed about the biggest trends and developments concerning medication ...
COVID-19
As part of the effort to combat the COVID-19 virus, we are seeing healthcare companies and ...
COVID-19
As you may know, Cureatr has been offering our Meds 360° medication management software solution on ...
Telepharmacy
Over the past several weeks, as the federal government and state governments have ramped up their ...
Medication Adherence
To help keep you informed about the biggest trends, developments, and announcements concerning ...
Medication Adherence
As we have highlighted, patients do not take their medicine as prescribed about 50% of the time and ...
Telehealth
Telehealth and telemedicine are in the spotlight as the country works to "flatten the curve" on the ...
Telehealth
One of the few positives to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is the greater understanding and ...
Telehealth
We at Cureatr have long been advocates for adopting and expanding the use of telehealth and ...
Medication Compliance
"It is estimated that three out of four Americans do not take their medication as directed." This ...
Medication Compliance
Medication compliance has been a matter of great interest and attention for many years. But more ...
Medication Compliance
"Medical Noncompliance: The Most Ignored National Epidemic." That's the title of an article in The ...
Medication Compliance
Everyone knows the phrase, “Take two pills and call me in the morning.” However, for many patients, ...
Medication Compliance
The fast-paced society in which we live makes it difficult to remember even the simplest details of ...
Medication Compliance
Medication management is difficult for many patients, but the challenge is often elevated for ...
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For this month’s Employee Spotlight, we spoke with Matthew Benedon. Originally from South Jersey, ...
Medication Compliance
When providers undertake efforts aimed at improving medication compliance, they not only help ...
Medication Compliance
Approximately 50% of patients do not take medications as prescribed. We’re talking about a whole ...
Medication Compliance
We've been focusing a lot lately on medication compliance concerning patients. Blogs have discussed ...
Medication Compliance
Poor medication compliance (i.e., noncompliance) can have devastating effects on a patient, ...
Medication Management
As we approach the end of the year, let’s examine some of the most significant news and ...
Medication Adherence
Treatment adherence. Treatment compliance. On the surface, these terms appear synonymous. After ...
Medication Adherence
The significance of medication adherence for patients is summarized perfectly by NEJM Catalyst: ...
Telehealth
Discussions around telehealth often focus on its applications for primary and acute care providers. ...
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What do suboptimal outcomes, higher rates of hospital admissions, increased morbidity and ...
Medication Management
ECRI Institute has identified medication-related events as one of the most frequent safety risks ...
Telehealth
Nearly 81% of Americans use a smartphone in the United States, and that number is projected to grow ...
Meds 360° now alerts for the American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria® of potentially harmful ...
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For this month's Employee Spotlight, we spoke with Shayam Parasram. Shayam is from Brentwood, New ...
Telehealth
Are you looking to improve your quality of care? Well, look no further than telemedicine. As ...
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ECRI Institute has issued its annual list of the top 10 health technology hazards. While addressing ...
Telehealth
Today’s health systems have set their sights on value-based care, a large component of which is ...
Telehealth
The adoption of telemedicine in healthcare is surging. We're not surprised considering the ...
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Last year, we chose our favorite healthcare apps of 2018, highlighting four platforms in total. ...
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Smartphones have been widely heralded as game-changers for healthcare. As we've previously ...
Medication Management
This is the third in a series of blog posts that describe common challenges associated with ...
Telehealth
Radiology, psychiatry, and cardiology are three specialties leading the use of telehealth with ...
Telehealth
In 2018, consumers worldwide downloaded more than 400 million medical apps, according to mobile ...
Telehealth
According to GSMA real-time intelligence data, over 5.13 billion people had mobile devices ...
Telehealth
When researching your options for telemedicine and telehealth solutions, you will likely hear about ...
Telehealth
Telehealth is growing rapidly, with one recent survey finding that inpatient adoption of such ...
Telehealth
Over the last three to five years, mobile technology in healthcare - often referred to as mHealth - ...
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Cureatr, a Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) technology and services company, announced ...
Telehealth
Scientist and professor Robert Istepanian is credited with having coined and defined the concept of ...
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Are you thinking about adding telehealth technology to your organization and offering telehealth ...
Medication Management
This is the second blog in a series of patient scenarios that describe common challenges associated ...
Medication Management
Last month, we began a series of blog posts that cover patient scenarios that describe common ...
Healthcare Technology
One often hears the terms "telemedicine" and "telehealth" used interchangeably. While they are ...
Medication Management
Every day, at least 130 people are projected to die from opioid-related drug overdoses, reports the ...
Healthcare Technology
My recent blog about telehealth described it as the overarching term for healthcare services ...
Healthcare Technology
mHealth, or mobile healthcare, is not only here to stay, but it's likely to play an increasingly ...
Healthcare Technology
Telehealth is a broad term used to describe the delivery of healthcare services using ...
Medication Management
When we set out to develop the Meds 360° medication management platform, we wanted to eliminate the ...
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Vendors Included in the Cool Vendor Report are Interesting, New and Innovative New York, NY – July ...
Medication Management
How important is chronic disease management? Here are some statistics and facts about chronic ...
Medication Management
In 2003, passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) ...
Medication Management
What if you could deliver comprehensive medication management services in your healthcare ...
Medication Management
In a recent article, we discussed some benefits of comprehensive medication management (CMM). While ...
Medication Management
Organizations striving to implement comprehensive medication management (CMM) programs are ...
Medication Management
The U.S. health system’s current standard of care for optimizing medication therapy is not working. ...
Medication Management
Looking to improve patient medication management? Few initiatives have the potential deliver the ...
Medication Management
A recent study calculated the cost of prescription drug related morbidity and mortality to be ...
Medication Management
There was recently some good news about physician burnout. As an American Medical Association ...
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As we discussed in a previous blog, there are many comprehensive medication management ...
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Ensuring proper medication therapy isn't easy. As an American College of Clinical Pharmacy notes, ...
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Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) has become a more widely used way to improve outcomes and ...
Medication Management
According to Gallup's latest annual poll on how the general American public views various ...
Medication Management
Polypharmacy is a term to describe patients who are taking multiple prescription medications, over ...
Medication Management
In simple terms, “polypharmacy” refers to the use of multiple (“poly”) medications (“pharmacy”). A ...
Medication Management
There's no lack of medical apps for clinicians to choose from these days. A 2018 analysis of the ...
Medication Management
Drug interactions represent a significant threat to the wellbeing of patients. As part of their ...
Medication Management
Medication therapy is a critical therapeutic component of treating disease and keeping people ...
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Polypharmacy is the simultaneous use of multiple medications by patients to treat one or more ...
Medication Management
Q&A with Michael Ross MD, MHA Following a recent webinar on "Optimizing Medication Management ...
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It's easy for patients to make significant mistakes with their medications. We know this because ...
Medication Management
Ensuring that medications are given safely and accurately is a cornerstone of safe medical care. ...
Medication Management
Medication management in hospitals is vitally important to the delivery of safe care. As the RARE ...
Medication Management
Medication management is the process of overseeing the medications prescribed for a patient to ...
Medication Management
Medication errors can occur at any time between when a clinician prescribes a medication and a ...
Medication Management
Medication management is a patient-focused approach to helping patients take their medicines ...
Medication Management
Preventing medical errors must be a high priority for any healthcare provider. They are avoidable, ...
Medication Management
Opioids claimed over 64,000 lives in 2017 and data show an almost fourfold increase in overdose ...
Medication Management
As people age, their risk of medication-related problems increases. As a Consumer Reports article ...
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Effective medication management is vital to achieving optimal outcomes. When providers can help ...
Healthcare Technology
We're only a few weeks into 2019, and yet one of the most significant conferences for healthcare ...
Healthcare Technology
Advances in healthcare technology are allowing hospitals to deliver safer, more effective and ...
Healthcare Technology
The multitude of ways that artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotic surgery, ...
Healthcare Technology
The U.S. healthcare industry is notoriously slow when it comes to adopting change and technology is ...
Healthcare Technology
Healthcare technology is advancing so quickly that it can be difficult to keep up. Unfortunately, ...
Healthcare Technology
When I started practicing medicine, the office staff used a paper-based ledger system to manage ...
Healthcare Technology
2018 was a year where technology further cemented its critical role in healthcare. There are few, ...
Healthcare Technology
How has technology affected healthcare? A column published on the Healthcare Information and ...
Healthcare Technology
Every year, new technology is introduced that has the potential to transform the delivery of care ...
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Proliferation of mobile devices and tablets, a drive toward managing and sharing risk, and a need ...
Medication Management
Clinicians can do a lot to keep their patients healthy. They can diagnose ailments and provide ...
Medication Management
To determine whether an organization's efforts to assist patients with medication management were ...
Healthcare Technology
For years, software engineers designed healthcare technologies for use only on terminal screens and ...
Healthcare Technology
When I began practicing medicine, the medical record was a paper chart. The chart typically ...
Medication Management
All the terrific treatment your organization provides to a patient may be for naught if that ...
Medication Management
Death. Disability. Hospitalization. These are just some of the more harmful results of medication ...
Medication Management
It’s well known and documented that medication adherence can mean the difference between a ...
Medication Management
With hundreds of millions of drugs ordered or provided every year in hospitals, the cost associated ...
Medication Management
Health care providers' primary responsibility is to do all within their power to help treat and ...
Medication Management
Spend some time researching medication adherence and you will inevitably come across this famous ...
Medication Management
How does your hospital or clinic keep patients safe from medication harm? In chaotic emergency ...
Medication Adherence
While often used interchangeably, medication adherence and medication compliance can be defined ...
Medication Management
Many chronic and acute conditions can be successfully treated with medications. As long as patients ...
Medication Adherence
The roughly 50% of patients who do not take their medications as prescribed are putting their ...
Medication Adherence
There are literally thousands of apps designed to help patients remember to take their medicine. A ...
Medication Adherence
A simple pill. When taken consistently and on schedule, it can help patients control and even ...
Medication Adherence
Medication adherence is vital to successful treatment, with the World Health Organization ...
Medication Adherence
Medication adherence has been the subject of extensive research, and justifiably so. Determining ...
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 15, 2018--Cureatr Inc., the country’s leading mobile real-time ...
Medication Adherence
For years, those of us in healthcare have generally cited the following estimates to illustrate the ...
Medication Adherence
If your organization doesn’t have effective processes in place for medication adherence, it's time ...
Medication Adherence
Our team recently ran across these interesting medication adherence statistics, all of which have ...
Medication Compliance
Nothing good can come out of failing to take a medication as prescribed. As former Surgeon General ...
Medication Compliance
Medication adherence refers to the degree or extent patients conform to a provider’s recommended ...
Medication Adherence
Consider these statistics: In the United States, nearly 4 million prescriptions are written ...
Care Management
Care management programs have become vital tools in helping organizations meet the treatment needs ...
Care Management
Whenever someone completes a project, they inevitably experience a range of emotions. One of them ...
Medication Adherence
It’s widely recognized that about half of the medicines prescribed to patients are not taken as ...
Care Management
There is no silver bullet answer to improving medication adherence and management in the outpatient ...
Care Management
One cannot understate the importance of the patient intake process. The results of a survey ...
Care Management
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) defines "care management" as follows: "Care management is ...
Care Management
Billions and billions of wasted dollars — $12 to $44 billion dollars, in fact. That's how much ...
Care Management
From scheduling doctor visits and picking up medications and DME, to finding a home health ...
Care Management
A recent piece in the New York Times caught my eye for its excellent layman’s primer about a ...
Patient Safety
One day after the wedding, my colleague’s new husband was in the yard chopping wood when his foot ...
Medication Reconciliation
You don't want to take chances with medication reconciliation. A poorly executed or incomplete ...
Care Management
Reducing readmissions is a priority for America’s hospitals. Here are some successful steps that ...
Patient Safety
As healthcare becomes increasingly value-based and patient-centric, healthcare providers have given ...
Patient Safety
Multiple studies indicate that ineffective communication among health care professionals is one of ...
Care Management
“Seamless” discharge planning happens when a patient is effectively and safely transitioned from ...
Patient Safety
How do you know when an organization is excelling in providing quality patient care? It receives ...
Care Management
The responsibility for patients does not end for hospitals upon discharge. Hospitals maintain and ...
Care Management
A discharge summary plays a crucial role in keeping patients safe after leaving a hospital. As an ...
Patient Safety
A patient safety model that truly works for patients can only exist in a culture of safety. Yet 15 ...
Medication Reconciliation
Medication reconciliation is not intended as a single event. Rather, as The Joint Commission notes ...
Patient Safety
I considered dozens of patient care issues for this post. I chose these five for their relevance to ...
Care Management
The transition to value-based care has hospitals exploring new avenues to cut down on preventable ...
Patient Safety
In a busy pediatric ER at the end of a grueling 12 hour shift, a nurse and a physician were caring ...
Medication Reconciliation
It doesn't take much to cause a medication error. Misplace a decimal point. Change a couple letters ...
Patient Safety
Nurses are a stalwart player on the patient care team. But even the most dedicated face a series of ...
Patient Safety
Medication errors. Falls. Wrong-site surgery. Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs). What do these ...
Care Management
Healthcare professionals don't need a statistical rehash of how many people head to emergency room ...
Care Management
Approximately 13 percent of 30-day hospital readmissions occur due to adverse drug events (ADE), ...
Care Management
As software developers dedicated to the mission of providing better care, we like to be in tune ...
Care Management
It’s easy for clinicians to reach the point of app overload as hundreds of new clinical apps get ...
Care Management
Just how important are effective care transitions to ensuring patient safety and avoiding adverse ...
Patient Safety
In my post from June, "The Importance of Patient Safety in Hospitals," I discussed the major impact ...
Patient Safety
In my post from June 21, 2018, I briefly discussed how the first five of ECRI’s Top 10 Patient ...
Medication Reconciliation
The number of patients taking prescribed medicines is shocking. Nearly half of the U.S. population ...
Care Management
Much has been written and discussed about the causes of gaps in care. One explanation that I feel ...
Care Management
If your hospital is looking to strengthen patient outcomes, there may be no better area to target ...
Patient Safety
It’s often said that knowledge is power. And to harness that power you must harness all the ...
Medication Reconciliation
Take a guess - how many people in the United States take at least one prescription drug every 30 ...
Medication Reconciliation
After refusing to have an infected tooth pulled, Sue’s dentist prescribed amoxicillin to treat the ...
Medication Reconciliation
Patients don’t take their medicine as prescribed about 50% of the time.[1] And approximately 25% of ...
Patient Safety
The well-being of patients is the top priority of every clinician and healthcare administrator, but ...
Patient Safety
There are many ways organizations can work to improve patient satisfaction. They can train ...
Patient Safety
It's no surprise to see more organizations allocating resources and investing in solutions to aid ...
Patient Safety
As healthcare providers, it is imperative that we put ourselves in the shoes of our patients. ...
Patient Safety
Imagine this scenario: Someone is lying on the sidewalk, having a seizure or unconscious. A ...
Patient Safety
Since 2009, the ECRI institute has released an annual report identifying the top 10 patient safety ...
Patient Safety
An electronic medical record (EMR) system can be a tremendously valuable tool. When used ...
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New York City, New York - Cureatr, a real-time healthcare information service provider, announced ...
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A 2016 analysis by Johns Hopkins patient safety experts revealed that more than 250,000 deaths ...
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VC Backed IT Start-up Veteran Brings 15 Years of Experience to NYC Based Real-time Healthcare ...
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New York, NY - August 8, 2017 – Cureatr – a New York-based healthcare technology company was ...
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Deerfield Investments led the Series B financing, with participation from previous and strategic ...
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