Four more regional Zika cases Reported in Miami-Dade

State health officials said on the day of Wednesday that they have discovered four more locally transmitted cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Miami-Dade County, while 2 "travel-related" cases were reported in the Orlando place.

The 4 cases in Miami-Dade brought the total of locally transmitted cases in the state to 244, in accordance to the Florida Department of Health website.

Investigators were attempting to determine where exposure occurred in the 4 cases. Meanwhile, one travel-related case was reported in Orange County, while another was reported in Osceola County.

In such cases, individuals are infected elsewhere and then bring Zika into the state.

In all, Florida has had 1,219 reported cases of Zika, in accordance to the department.

Horizon Family Medical Group receives Ambulatory Davies award

Based on its capability to utilize record systems to make better the patient treatment and results in care, Horizon Family Medical Group (HFMG) has been chosen as a winner of Ambulatory Davies Award of Excellence for 2016 year.

The provider organization reflects a hug network of ambulatory care providers in the Orange County, New York. Horizon Family Medical Group has more than 100 physicians working out of forty locations in the place of Hudson River Valley; its physicians provide care in seventeen specialties.

The honor applauds HFMG for results from its use of electronic health records (EHRs) in improving care.

In its implementation, Horizon Family Medical Group provided 3 case studies indicating how it has used healthcare information technology to improve patient and business results.

• HMFG decreased thirty-day readmissions by 30% in a year. Its thirty-day readmission rate of 10.5% is 50% below the national average. The medical group leveraged transition of care managers with a transition of care management tool constructed into the EHR with the patient’s risk status assessed at the bedside. The care management tool offered standardized approaches for patient follow-up, appointment scheduling and care plan adherence monitoring.

• High alcohol consumption has been decreased 18% for at-risk patients. HMFG leveraged clinical decision support and analytics-driven huddle reports to make sure the high compliance with standardized care for drug and alcohol screening and weight management.

• Provider time with sufferers increased by 27% for scheduled fifteen-minute appointments permitting more direct patient counseling. Analytics-driven huddle reporting and EHR-enabled workflows improved provider efficiency, resulting in more time for sufferers with their providers.

The HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has acknowledged remarkable achievement of organizations using health IT to substantially improve patient outcomes while gaining a return on investment.

 

Innovation Institute hosts, welcomes the Global Healthcare Innovations Alliance

It was an honor for us at The Innovation Institute to host the Global Healthcare Innovations Alliance recently at our Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, Calif. The Alliance is a collaborative network of healthcare networks, academic institutions and corporate partners from around the globe.

The Alliance involves our company, The Innovation Institute, deployed in Orange County, Calif. We are a health care product incubator for 5 major health systems. It also involves Cleveland Clinic, based in Cleveland, with operations in Florida, Nevada, Canada and Abu Dhabi; MedStar Health, the greatest healthcare provider in the Maryland and Washington, D.C. region; University of Notre Dame in Indiana; ProMedica, serving northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan; Marshfield Clinic system, with sites in northern, central and western Wisconsin; Parker Hannifin, based in Cleveland, with operations worldwide; NASA Glenn Research Center, based in Cleveland, with services across the U.S.; Cox Communications, a conglomerate based in Atlanta; and Lubrizol, based in Wickliffe, Ohio.

The Alliance serves as a multilateral network that permits members to share in innovation development and commercialization. Members gather once per year to learn from each other about how to succeed in delivering the most effective medical technologies and solutions to sufferers.