athenaInsight feature: The high-tech healthcare huddle
Once a burden, it’s now a staff capability tool –and a way to use data to facilitate care.
Continue reading »Grand Round Table is Helping Affected Communities Combat Zika Virus
Grand Round Table (GRT), a provider of clinical decision support solutions, today announced it is doing all it can to help combat the effects of Zika virus through early detection and improved care coordination. GRT’s Clinical Assistant software is currently being used in Miami-Dade health centers to help identify patients who may be at risk.
Continue reading »Three Tips To Make Your Patient Safety Huddles More Effective
Based on our experience providing the Clinical Assistant as a solution to help facilitate daily patient safety huddles for our clients while addressing value-based compliance requirements including care coordination, clinical decision support, and test tracking and follow-up, we’ve picked up a few tips on how to implement patient safety huddles most effectively.
Continue reading »5 healthcare startups you should meet
There was an abundance of healthcare startups at the MedCity CONVERGE conference this week seeking to solve a broad spectrum of pain points in healthcare from clinical decision support through Grand Round Table to providing a safer and faster way to do a laryngoscopy for patients like Inscope Medical.
Continue reading »Grand Round Table Partners with athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program to Simplify Patient Huddle Preparation for Patient Centered Medical Homes
Grand Round Table (GRT), a provider of clinical decision support solutions, today announced a partnership with athenahealth, Inc. through athenahealth’s More Disruption Please(MDP) program. The company’s Clinical Assistant is now available as part of athenahealth® Marketplace offerings.
Continue reading »Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners Invests In Grand Round Table
Grand Round Table (GRT) of Philadelphia, PA, is proud to announce that Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP) has become an investor alongside Penn Medicine, Independence Blue Cross, and DreamIt Ventures.
Continue reading »He ditched med school for software that helps doctors
ERIC KING, 30, of Northern Liberties, is founder and CEO of Grand Round Table, a startup on 3rd Street near Market that develops software to help doctors make complicated diagnoses. GRT, which launched in 2012, is getting the correct diagnoses about 70 percent of the time. The company, which was part of the first DreamIt Health accelerator in 2013, has three full-time employees and has raised $110,000 from the Wharton Venture Initiation Program and Ben Franklin Technology Partners.
Continue reading »Grand Round Table software gets complicated diagnoses right 70%
Local health IT startup Grand Round Table is developing software that helps doctors make complicated diagnoses. Its first partner? Einstein Medical Center’s award-winning team of internal medicine residents. The team has won three consecutive national Jeopardy-style medical challenges. Grand Round Table, one of the several DreamIt Health startups that remained in Philly after the accelerator ended, is testing its software at the team’s practice sessions, where Einstein residents test their knowledge in making challenging diagnoses, Dr. House-style.
Continue reading »I ditched med school to start a business
When Eric King dropped out of Thomas Jefferson Medical College, he was sure about one thing: His passion for health care wasn’t about practicing medicine but about finding solutions to improve it. “Studying medicine is a lot about memorization and how much information you can spit up,” said King. “That method, I learned very quickly, was not for me.”
Continue reading »DreamIt 'boot camp' boosts health-care info start-ups
Penn Medicine chief executive Ralph Muller is convinced that information technology is central to improving health care. That’s why Penn joined with Independence Blue Cross to sponsor DreamIt Health Philadelphia 2013, a four-month boot camp for 10 start-up companies that wraps up Aug. 9.
Continue reading »Could an EMR plugin using big data help physicians make diagnosis more efficient
As healthcare providers and hospitals explore the best ways to use big data from de-identified patient records, one startup sounds like it’s onto a great idea. The founders of Grand Round Table are developing a plug-in for electronic medical records that would give physicians, especially younger doctors, the power to quickly reference treatment approaches used by other physicians in similar circumstances.
Continue reading »10 healthcare startups promise savings, better care
Healthcare organizations have often been criticized for being slow to adapt to changes in the marketplace. A recent accelerator program spearheaded by Independence Blue Cross (IBC), Penn Medicine and DreamIt Ventures hopes to change that by backing 10 innovative healthcare startups. And while none of these startups are likely to revolutionize medicine, they do suggest that there are many entrepreneurs with promising solutions that may reduce the cost of care while maintaining its quality.
Continue reading »Improving outcomes, speeding up diagnoses among goals of Dreamit Venture's first health IT accelerator
Philadelphia has reached a new milestone in the drive to build its startup healthcare ecosystem. DreamIt Health’s inaugural class includes 10 startups. The four-month program co-sponsored by Independence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine includes members seeking to develop tools for healthcare providers to speed up diagnoses and improve outcomes.
Continue reading »3 Tips to Make Your Patient Safety Huddles More Effective
Based on our experience providing the Clinical Assistant as a solution to help facilitate daily patient safety huddles for our clients while addressing value-based compliance requirements including care coordination, clinical decision support, and test tracking and follow-up, we’ve picked up a few tips on how to implement patient safety huddles most effectively. Continue reading »Huddle Up: Every Minute Counts in Primary Care
One of the most effective and innovative ways that practices are addressing these challenges is through daily huddles. Huddles are short, daily briefings at the beginning of the day in which a small team, such as a Primary Care Provider and a Nurse or Medical Assistant, review the patient list for the day. Continue reading »Get Ready for Physician Quality Reporting in 2015
Starting in 2015, all providers who participate in Fee-For-Service Medicare are required to report to the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). Hover over hospitals and health networks in your region to learn about who is in the top and bottom quartiles for quality and how your practice compares. Continue reading »Clinical Decision Support: Say No to Alerts!
One of the most disruptive obstacles in a physician’s workflow has become the proliferation of alerts that pop-up while using electronic health records (EHRs). However, studies have consistently demonstrated that alerts are are overridden by physicians 49-96% of the time. Continue reading »Applying User-Centered Design to Healthcare
A widely-practiced method for designing user interfaces is to focus on the user and how they would use your interface, formally called user-centered design. But how can user-centered design be applied to healthcare? Continue reading »Allscripts Client Experience 2015
Grand Round Table was proud to sponsor our first Allscripts Client Experience (ACE) 2015 annual conference this year. Continue reading »Accelerating Healthcare Innovation with FHIR
Data interoperability is a growing concern in the healthcare industry and with good reason. As systems for delivering care become more digital, the need to share data between systems becomes more clear. Currently, EHR vendors create their own custom API specs which have led to bespoke and brittle data connections between entities that are vulnerable to breaking changes. To make matters worse, vendors are often not following best practices when it comes to popular styles like REST that cause confusion and wasted time for those attempting to consume their data. Continue reading »Clinical Decision Support: Air Traffic Control for Healthcare
Can you imagine what air travel would be like without the coordination of air traffic control? If waiting on the runway for twenty minutes sounds bad, imagine waiting for hours for each pilot to consult with every other pilot both on the ground and in the air. The most efficient and arguably safest mode of transportation would slow to a crawl and be fraught with danger as pilots struggle to piece together all of the information needed to make smart decisions.Unfortunately for those of us in healthcare, this is the reality we face every day because there is no standard like air traffic control for coordinating patient care. Continue reading »
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