Beckers Hospital Review

AUGUST 8, 2025

Leaders are also exploring multimodal AI applications, such as ambient listening and computer vision, for use in emergency departments, inpatient rooms and clinical documentation. It’s about meeting patients where they are—regardless of language or background,” Mr. Gillette said.

Inpatient

Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 12, 2025

Given the regimen’s complexity and potential for immune-related toxicities, pharmacist involvement is essential for ensuring patient safety, optimizing therapeutic outcomes, and supporting operational coordination across the clinic, infusion center, and inpatient care teams. J Clin Oncol. 2025;43(suppl 16). doi:10.1200/JCO.2025.43.16_suppl.7015

Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Times

JULY 22, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as PGxAI are now automating literature review, guideline development, and reimbursement documentation, enabling pharmacogenetic innovation to move from discovery to clinical application in months rather than decades.

Pharmacy Technician

RX Note

JULY 22, 2025

The document is divided into two main sections: Drug Class/Active Ingredients - covering common classes of chronic disease medications. Plan follow-up with the patient, as necessary (if inpatient setting). Notably, all disease-specific discussions have been removed. End the conversation with "Do you have any questions?".

Patient Counseling

Pharmacy Times

JULY 17, 2025

Patients 18 years or older with inpatient admission to SMV were included in the review. Patients were excluded if they had a primary mental health diagnosis of a substance use disorder or no documented Behavioral Health Initial Assessment Form in the electronic medical record.

HIV Treatment and Prevention Agents

Ramblings of a pharmacist

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Hospitals and health systems maintain formularies of products that they will stock in the hospital pharmacy and administer to inpatients. ” The plan will require that there be documentation that the member has tried some other preferred alternative before they will pay for the originally prescribed therapy.

Insurance Coverage and Processing

Beckers Hospital Review

AUGUST 1, 2025

Mr. Chan has led Iodine Software to the forefront of healthcare AI by developing predictive and intelligent tools that dramatically enhance clinical documentation and revenue cycle outcomes. She has assembled a high-performing team and developed educational initiatives that improve documentation quality and provider engagement.

Insurance Coverage and Processing

Beckers Hospital Review

JULY 17, 2025

Rising costs and stagnant reimbursement rates have made inpatient care especially challenging, requiring smarter, leaner models to sustain excellence. To meet this challenge, Infirmary Health redesigned its clinical documentation integrity process without adding staff. Iowa Brett Taylor.

Insurance Coverage and Processing

Beckers Hospital Review

AUGUST 1, 2025

One community hospital added inpatient infectious disease and heme/onc consults virtually with fractional coverage. To further reduce friction, AI and automation streamline communication, pre-charting, and documentation. We’ve seen this play out across hospitals we support. The result?

Hospitals

Beckers Hospital Review

AUGUST 8, 2025

Dr. Arline leads patient safety, quality, analytics, documentation and infection control at BayCare Health System, a 16-hospital network. She launched a comprehensive clinical documentation improvement program, which resulted in enhanced revenue and performance on quality rankings. Laura Arline, MD. Krista Curell, JD, RN. Amy Lu, MD.

Hospitals

Beckers Hospital Review

JULY 11, 2025

During the Covid-19 pandemic, he served as incident commander and interim president for the hospital, leading the creation of Maryland’s only inpatient Covid-19 behavioral health unit. The hospital sees over 36,000 emergency visits, 5,600 inpatient admissions and 900 births annually. Cristina Contreras.

Hospitals

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MARCH 6, 2025

Both guidance documents recommend data management practices for collecting data for use in developing, tuning, and testing an artificial intelligence model and making changes to said model. inpatient hospital, out-patient clinic), date range for the data, and location of the data collection sites (e.g., data acquisition device).

Documentation

STAT

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Federal investigators asked CHS to hand over documents that covered “practices and procedures related to utilization review, inpatient admissions, and inpatient dialysis at our hospitals.”

Hospitals

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 27, 2024

Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document! This meant that any unchanged guidance statements from the 2012 9th edition were still considered to be part of the guidelines, but were not reprinted in the 2016 document. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

Documentation

Pharmacy Joe

MARCH 27, 2024

Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document! This meant that any unchanged guidance statements from the 2012 9th edition were still considered to be part of the guidelines, but were not reprinted in the 2016 document. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

Documentation

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

MARCH 29, 2023

Children 29 days or older with fever from a documented viral source can be managed according to their clinical presentation and can go outside the algorithm. This requires a documented positive viral swab and not just a presentation consistent with a viral syndrome. What should be done if the viral panel is positive ?

Hospitals

Pharmacy Joe

MAY 1, 2024

A total of 184 patients met the criteria of presenting to the ED and being admitted for bacterial infection, having a reported beta-lactam allergy history that was moderate, severe, or unknown in nature, and who did not have a documented history of beta-lactam tolerance. He experienced a rash to the piperacillin-tazobactam as an inpatient.

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Clindamycin is given a strong recommendation by the IDSA to be added to penicillin for treatment of documented group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 26, 2023

There were no infusion-related reactions including phlebitis or IV site reactions that were documented. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher If you navigate to the page on the website for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices that once hosted the document titled “Oral Dosage Forms That Should Not Be Crushed” you will instead find a notice that the list has been removed from the ISMP website.

Dosage

pharmaphorum

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The burden was chiefly driven by direct costs like medicinal products, inpatient and outpatient hospital visits and home healthcare, as well as mortality costs, calculated at $130,000 per year lost. The highest burden was posed by metabolic diseases and neurological disorders, which were both upwards of $300,000 PPPY.

Inpatient

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JULY 19, 2022

While job searching, it is important to note that all hospitals have different educational requirements for NPs, therefore, this post is documenting the “typical” jobs for nurse practitioners. Inpatient and Outpatient Consult Services. Emergency Medicine. Nothing defines the term “acute” like emergency medicine (EM).

Inpatient

pharmaphorum

AUGUST 11, 2022

CMS recently finalized its proposal to include the score in its Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program featured in the 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule. What is the Global Malnutrition Composite Score?

Hospitals

Pharmacy Joe

AUGUST 25, 2024

Louis just published a prospective before-after pilot and feasibility trial of an educational initiative aimed at instituting reliable ED sedation depth documentation and reducing the proportion of deeply sedated patients. The final analysis of the study population included 415 patients across 3 medical centers. post-intervention.

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The authors ackowledge the limitations of such a document including a relatively small number of people providing input and the risk of persuasive voices influencing group thinking. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The authors ackowledge the limitations of such a document including a relatively small number of people providing input and the risk of persuasive voices influencing group thinking. To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

JUNE 5, 2022

No patient in the study cohort required treatment for extravasation, and the bedside team taking care of each patient never documented an extravasation event. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Documentation

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In about one-fifth of the aPTTs results there was documented interference by the lab. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– This cohort of patients had 531 aPTTs drawn collectively.

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The current guidance in the Pfizer document states: Limited inventory released direct and to wholesalers/distributors in part or full when available. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The current guidance in the Pfizer document states: Limited inventory released direct and to wholesalers/distributors in part or full when available. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

APRIL 26, 2023

There were no infusion-related reactions including phlebitis or IV site reactions that were documented. If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharma cist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <–

Inpatient

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Joe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

If you like this post, check out my book – A Pharmacist’s Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To access my free download area with 20 different resources to help you in your practice, go to pharmacyjoe.com/free.

Pharmacy Technician

Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 27, 2023

In an email to Pharmaceutical Technology , he further described the therapy as “the most important advance for treatment of TTP since the documentation of effectiveness of plasma exchange in 1991”. A refund up to 12 inpatient doses will also be offered for patients whose disease worsens while receiving treatment.

Documentation

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The exception regarding haloperidol and lorazepam is not generalizable as elsewhere in the same document the authors state: Do not give with or within 1 hour of any BZD given risk for respiratory suppresion The article in this episode is a selection from my Hospital Pharmacy Academys weekly literature digest.

Inpatient

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The benefits offered by advanced level practitioners to practice is well documented as well. between 2012 and 2015. The study said, “Most of these specialists were advanced practitioners, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, delivering post-acute care.” or lower.”

Nursing Homes

Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If you like this post, check outmy book A Pharmacists Guide to Inpatient Medical Emergencies: How to respond to code blue, rapid response calls, and other medical emergencies. <– To get immediate access go to pharmacyjoe.com/academy.

Inpatient