The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is the agency in state government responsible for ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all North Carolinians, providing human service needs for special populations including individuals who are deaf, blind, developmentally disabled and m...
North Carolina nurses move toward paperless, person-centered health records to improve care.Provides an update on the advantages of developing computerized medical records to provide clinical data and health care continuum. Discussion on data information for quality patient care; Privacy and ...
For example, in spring 2020, the North Carolina health department, led by current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Mandy Cohen,failed to get covid testingto vulnerable Black communities where people were getting sick and dying from covid-related causes at far hig...
The first was when I was working in the emergency department. Although I was a contractor, I worked for a physician-owned organization that treated us fairly and was overall pleasant to work for. Unfortunately, our contract ended, and rather than renew it with us, the hospital went with a ...
Healthcare providers that block access to electronic health records and information will face financial penalties, according to a new rule recently finalized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “This final rule is designed to ensure we always have access to our own health infor...
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is launching a Community Partner Engagement Plan to ensure the voices of North Carolina communities and families continue to be at the center of the department’s work. Published:Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 2:43 pmBy:Eastern NC NOW St...
Children are more vulnerable to environmental insults and injury compared to adults, and health disparities and other social determinants can influence exposure patterns. Early-life exposure to environmental chemical and pollutants can affect an individual’s health over the lifetime. In fact, children...
Apple Health Records Integrates with Allscripts EHR Suites In the age of wearables and smartphones, more and more consumers are tracking health-related data on their smart devices. From tracking steps to monitoring your list of medications, Apple’s Health app has been one of the most well-know...
March was a particularly bad month for healthcare data breaches with 93 branches of 500 or more records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a 50% increase from February and a 41% year-over-year increase from March 2023. The last ...
Our study relied on self-reported health measures rather than data from medical records. Although our measure of adverse cardiovascular outcomes summarized related items selected for their face validity, this scale has not been formally evaluated as a measure of cardiovascular disease severity. However,...