Paul Govern

November 14, 2013

Clinical enterprise braced for shifting health landscape

Vanderbilt University Medical Center staff and faculty are preparing for a new health care landscape, one shaped by a lowered payment regime, greater outside scrutiny of health care quality, new rewards and penalties for hospital and provider safety and quality, and the transfer of financial risk for health outcomes from payers to newly affiliated hospitals and providers.

By Paul Govern
November 14, 2013

Meeting lets employers, providers explore solutions

As never before, large employers and regional health care providers have opportunity — and incentive — to work together to tame unsustainable health benefit cost inflation while improving health and health care outcomes.

By Paul Govern
November 7, 2013

Initiative seeks better post-op care coordination

The Transition Management Office at Vanderbilt University Medical Center holds to the principle that every patient should know what will happen next in his or her care, when it will happen, who will be involved and what the costs will be.

By Paul Govern
October 31, 2013

Fisk, VU planning novel academic bridge program

Fisk University and Vanderbilt University have begun planning for a novel academic bridge program comprising a three-year accelerated Fisk undergraduate degree, weighted toward courses in natural science, mathematics or computer science, followed by a computer science master’s degree from Fisk, bridging to a Biomedical Informatics Ph.D. from Vanderbilt.

By Paul Govern
October 31, 2013

Daily huddles help smooth VUH patient transition process

Daily multidisciplinary patient transition huddles are now in effect for all but four units of Vanderbilt University Hospital.

By Paul Govern
October 24, 2013

Teleneurology services coming to Williamson Medical Center

Neurologists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and patient care teams 18 miles away at Williamson Medical Center (WMC) will take advantage of network technology to provide remote neurological patient examinations on an urgent basis.

By Paul Govern
October 24, 2013

New process for patient handovers from ED to units

Beginning Oct. 29, Vanderbilt University Hospital will use a new process for patient handovers between nurses in the adult Emergency Department and nurses on inpatient units.
By Paul Govern
October 24, 2013

New online tool eases clinical trial billing process

A new Web-based tool is helping Vanderbilt research coordinators assemble accurate billing plans more quickly.
By Paul Govern
October 24, 2013

Eskind project seeks to demystify genotyping information for patients

With the aid of a two-year, $487,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a Vanderbilt research team will develop a reusable model to promote better patient engagement with the health care team through delivery of consumer-friendly pharmacogenetic information.
By Paul Govern
October 17, 2013

Pharmacogenomic testing costs studied

A research team led by Josh Peterson, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, and John Graves, Ph.D., assistant professor of Preventive Medicine, will study the cost-effectiveness of testing patients’ risk of adverse gene-drug interactions.
By Paul Govern
October 3, 2013

‘Cornelius’ program speeds assessment of readmission risk

A new computer program called Cornelius calculates two risk scores for each newly arrived Vanderbilt University Hospital patient — one estimating the patient’s risk of developing pressure ulcers (bedsores) during the current hospital stay, and the other estimating the patient’s risk of returning to VUH for readmission within 30 days of discharge.
By Paul Govern
October 3, 2013

ResearchMatch sub-registries add to database’s reach

Launched in 2009 by a team at Vanderbilt, ResearchMatch is the first nationwide, disease-neutral research volunteer registry. More than 43,000 volunteers spread among all 50 states have registered with ResearchMatch.org.
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