Hospice care is a very personal type of care and involves much more than simply the patient themselves. Oftentimes the family and close friends are heavily involved in this process, and the patient care expected from hospice nurses is very high. The standard of care here must be top-notch, and cultivate the best experience […]
Health Literacy has a huge impact on an individual’s relationship with their own health and healthcare experience. The CDC defines health literacy as “ the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions.” By this definition, health literacy has […]
Informed consent is an essential component of patient care, and the clinician must ensure that the decision to proceed with the proposed intervention is truly an informed one. Although this is the ideal, the reality is quite different. The process of obtaining an informed consent is often overlooked, abbreviated, or delegated to assistants. Patients instill […]
Recently, we have entered into a partnership with RxCheckIn! RxCheckIn connects providers and patients with a simple to use system that educates and monitors patient recovery following any procedure. We think their postoperative platform compliments our informed consent and patient education preoperative platform in a very productive way. The surgical perioperative process extends far outside […]
Racial Bias in the Healthcare System, Algorithms, and how it can Affect the Informed Consent Process
As I sat in my clinic, ready to see the next patient, my nurse walked-in and handed me the chart with the “heads-up” that the next patient is an attorney. Now, being married to an attorney, I guess I’m not that phased by carrying on normal conversations with them as I’m confident they live, breathe, […]
In honor of this being Thanksgiving week, and National Family Health History Day falling on Thanksgiving Day, we wanted to make family health history the focus of our blog this week! Thanksgiving Day was declared National Family Health History Day by the U.S. Surgeon General in 2004. Knowing and being able to provide family health […]
Providing a truly informed consent is both essential and beneficial for any individual receiving medical treatment. At its core, it is to ensure that permission is given with the full knowledge of the proposed treatment details along with any relevant benefits, risks, and alternatives. This concept is critical in both emergent and elective medical treatments. […]
One very important thing that we want everyone to know about us is that yes, we are a digital consent platform, but that we are so much more than that! Let’s put it into perspective: you could say that your iphone is great for playing music, but that doesn’t begin to cover the extent of […]
First, let us thank you for joining and welcome you to our blog! We are thrilled you are here and are excited to give you so background in a little more detail about not only how we started, but the big question, WHY? We will also be discussing relevant industry topics and issues, and are […]
In 2015, Healthcare miscommunications cost 2, 000 lives and 1.7 Billion (with a capital “B”) dollars to the organizations that were responsible for the miscommunications according to Christine Kern writing for Health IT Outcomes (2015). One of the most often cited forms of miscommunications involves an incorrectly obtained, or poorly delivered, medical consent to treat. […]
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