The Value of Having Trending and Retrospective Data at GoLive A key feature to consider when evaluating clinical surveillance solutions for hospitals is the immediate availability of retrospective (historical) data at the time of GoLive. We recently spoke about this with Dr. Russell Ryono, who has over 30 years of experience as an infection preventionist… Continue reading The Value of Having Trending and Retrospective Data at GoLive
The Value in Having VISN Level Clinical Surveillance When evaluating clinical surveillance solutions for hospitals, one key dimension to consider is the ability to do network wide surveillance and reporting (or the VISN level in the VA system), in addition to the level of the individual hospital. We spoke about this with Dr. Russell Ryono,… Continue reading The Value in Having VISN Level Clinical Surveillance
Preventing Hospital Acquired Infections: An Interview with Dr. Russell Ryono According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at any given time, healthcare-associated infections affect between 3.5% and 12% of patients in developed countries, and between 5.7% and 19.1% of patients in low and middle-income countries. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)… Continue reading Preventing Hospital Acquired Infections: An Interview with Dr. Russell Ryono
Bill Maher Top Trends at VA Hospitals in 2020 and 2021 As a truly momentous 2020 draws to a close, we spoke recently with Bitscopic’s Director of Sales and Business Development, Bill Maher, to get his perspective on the high-level trends he sees as he talks to numerous VA hospitals across the country. This is… Continue reading Top Trends at VA Hospitals in 2020 and 2021
Five Key Questions to Ask When Evaluating Clinical Surveillance Software Why Clinical Surveillance is Critical for a Modern Hospital According to The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time. Antimicrobial resistance each year causes more than 2 million infections, and 23,000 deaths.… Continue reading Five Key Questions to Ask When Evaluating Clinical Surveillance Software
VA’s Palo Alto Hospital Selects Bitscopic’s PraediAlert Clinical Surveillance Platform Bitscopic Inc., a Silicon Valley based healthcare analytics company, announced today that the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Palo Alto Medical Center has selected Bitscopic’s PraediAlert platform for clinical surveillance. PraediAlert is an FDA registered clinical surveillance system that allows hospitals to improve patient… Continue reading VA’s Palo Alto Hospital Selects Bitscopic’s PraediAlert Clinical Surveillance Platform
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at any given time, healthcare-associated infections affect between 3.5% and 12% of patients in developed countries, and between 5.7% and 19.1% of patients in low and middle-income countries. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections cause or contribute to… Continue reading Preventing Hospital Acquired Infections
Bitscopic Releases Project Hilleman Software as Open Source Bitscopic announced today that it has released its “Project Hilleman” software as Open Source code on GitHub. The Project Hilleman software provides tools to connect and modernize the VistA Electronic Health Record system which is used by the Veterans Affairs Hospital system throughout the United States and… Continue reading Bitscopic Releases Project Hilleman Software as Open Source
Using Open Technology To Build a Biodefense Against the Coronavirus What must it have felt like to be a guard on the watchtower of a castle back in the Middle Ages knowing that a deadly enemy is about to appear in the distance and assault the castle at any moment? News of the devastation in… Continue reading Using Open Technology To Build a Biodefense Against the Coronavirus
VistA: Could the EHR Rise from the Embers like a Phoenix? By Joel Mewton, Chief Technology Officer, Bitscopic The VistA EHR system, with its initial development dating back to 1977, was one of the first Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in the world. For many decades it has been recognized as a leading Health Record… Continue reading VistA: Could the EHR Rise from the Embers like a Phoenix?
