If Facebook and other social network has notification for updated the people how come the healthcare system has not yet come with one alert that everyone in the health care system could use. Having the alert system could increase breast cancer screening rate, diabetic and depression screening rate depends on the facility. For the study, researchers followed 40 primary care physicians at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago who implemented the EHR alert system. After one year of using the system, researchers found that: The percentage of heart disease patients receiving cholesterol-lowering medications rose from 87% to 93%; the percentage of patients receiving pneumonia vaccinations increased from 80% to 90%; and the percentage of patients receiving colon cancer screenings increased from 57% to 62% (Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 12/22). Forty primary physicians who are provided better care by using an alert system now imagined the impact if more physicians and specialists were using this alert or a better
If Facebook and other social network has notification for updated the people how come the healthcare system has not yet come with one alert that everyone in the health care system could use. Having the alert system could increase breast cancer screening rate, diabetic and depression screening rate depends on the facility. For the study, researchers followed 40 primary care physicians at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago who implemented the EHR alert system. After one year of using the system, researchers found that: The percentage of heart disease patients receiving cholesterol-lowering medications rose from 87% to 93%; the percentage of patients receiving pneumonia vaccinations increased from 80% to 90%; and the percentage of patients receiving colon cancer screenings increased from 57% to 62% (Merrill, Healthcare IT News, 12/22). Forty primary physicians who are provided better care by using an alert system now imagined the impact if more physicians and specialists were using this alert or a better