Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this – part one of our two-part interview with the innovator – we talk about generative AI in healthcare and how hospital chief information officers and other health IT leaders should be preparing for a fast-evolving future for the technology. What role do you think generative AI should play in healthcare today?

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Drawing on decades of industry leadership, Rubins experience includes: Leading roles such as CEO of One Medical (Amazon), EVP at UnitedHealth Group/Optum, CEO at Stanford Universitys health system, COO at UCLAs health system, and COO at Stony Brook University Hospital. Spearheading One Medicals $1.7 billion IPO in 2020 and its subsequent $3.9

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 21, 2025

Overcoming the Challenges of Nurse Leader Proactive Rounding: Strategies for Success Hospital are continually seeking effective strategies to elevate patient satisfaction and improve quality outcomes. However, despite their potential, many hospitals find that these initiatives often fall short of expectations.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2025

These attacks target critical healthcare data, putting patient safety and institutional integrity at risk. As healthcare professionals know, patient data is one of the most valuable assets on the black market. The healthcare sector can draw valuable insights from industries that have successfully implemented multimodal systems.

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Executive Director’s Choice Award: Fall prevention is an important initiative for every hospital unit in providing excellent care. Recently, the nursing team on 3 South at Fox Chase Cancer Center reached the significant milestone of one full year—365 consecutive days—with no patient falls on their unit.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 20, 2025

Did you know that unaddressed environmental hazards are a leading cause of preventable incidents in hospitals? From improper equipment storage to trip hazards, these overlooked risks can jeopardize both patient and staff safety. Environmental rounds are not just about checking off a compliance box.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Bluesight , a provider of medication intelligence solutions, released its 2024 Diversion Trends Report , offering valuable insights for healthcare providers to improve controlled substance monitoring and patient safety.

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KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. But customers must opt in to the feature, so it is likely unused in many hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As AI and large language models (LLMs) become more integrated into healthcare, it is essential to develop frameworks that prioritize patient safety, clinical expertise, and evidence-based practice.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

An ACO (Accountable Care Organization) works for the better care of patients. Consider it as a group that combines hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare specialists for the sake of providing healthcare and is a team in care decisions. For instance, patient and caregiver experience, care coordination, and patient safety.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What You Should Know: – Partnership enables AdhereHealth to deploy Hero’s digital in-home care platform to simplify complex medication routines, improve patient safety and optimize value-based care. Hero continually monitors the patient’s medication inventory and facilitates real-time medication reconciliation as well.

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Beterra

JULY 10, 2024

Patient safety is a critical component of healthcare quality. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) to improve patient safety in hospital settings. …More Beterra Analysis coming soon on PSSM.

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Bill Of Health

JULY 11, 2022

The House of Commons has a Committee on Health and Social Care Committee (“the committee”) which holds to account the Department of Health and Social Care and government health policy. billion – equivalent to the annual running costs of the biggest hospital Trust in England or four average sized hospitals.

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Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Personalized Medicine Design: Quantum-enhanced AI might analyze a patient’s genetic makeup, lifestyle, and environment to tailor treatments. Healthcare Operations Optimization: Quantum algorithms could optimize scheduling for hospitals, clinical trials, and surgeries, improving efficiency and patient care.

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Healthcare Success

JULY 5, 2022

What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. How many are employees of a group practice or hospital? In fact, nearly three in four doctors work for a hospital, health system, or corporate entity today, according to Avalere Health.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In honor of World Health Organization World Patient Safety Day 2023, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation hosted a webinar dedicated to the theme of “Empowering Patients.” Children’s Hospital and the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

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Healthcare Success

MARCH 6, 2024

Whether you run a multilocation healthcare organization, hospital, or health system, understanding the distinction between search engine optimization (SEO) vs. search engine marketing (SEM)—and how each distinctly helps your business—is important for several reasons. This knowledge helps you: Allocate resources more efficiently.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2024

If a hospital sees a high rate of readmissions for patients with a certain procedure, it’s important to look at why that’s happening so that it can be addressed rather than allowed to recur. Readmits are bad for patients and hospitals, driving up costs and exposing each to unnecessary risk.

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Etactics

MARCH 7, 2025

From the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) training sessions, or even standard training courses. However, most Healthcare LMSs have HIPAA ( Health Industry Portability and Accountability Act) training. This is due to the change of having employees make accounts and learn how to use the system.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare. points, 81.8%

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The star ratings are based upon OASIS measures — such as how often the home health team taught patients about their drugs — and claims-based measures, such as how often home health patients had to be admitted to the hospital. The data used for our study were obtained from the CMS Home Health Compare dataset.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Hospitals, doctors’ offices, and local clinics are all home to vast amounts of sensitive patient and employee data. Hospitals alone store about 50 petabytes of sensitive data every year. In order to operate seamlessly and provide the best care possible, these healthcare havens need to ensure that their IT stack is robust.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2024

As technology continues to advance and transform healthcare, the role of nurses is also evolving to include new responsibilities beyond patient care. With the increasing reliance on EHRs, telemedicine, and digital technology, hospitals face a growing risk of cyber threats.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

APRIL 25, 2023

Clear bagging involves a provider, typically a hospital, creating a formal program through which its internal specialty pharmacy can dispense the drug and deliver it to the site of service. Key criticisms of white and brown bagging are: Patient safety. physician administered) benefit to the patient’s pharmacy benefit.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2022

This is partially due to the overarching industry shift toward patient-centricity, but in some cases, it is also due to the commercial availability of powerful technology solutions not previously feasible for use in medical devices. Are there patient safety concerns with the proposed therapy? If not, what combination will?

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2024

The American Hospital Association is curating a similar page for the organization’s hospital members with updates and special reports and links. Billions of dollars of non-payments are challenging certain hospitals and medical practices to remain open and provide essential services. health care system.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

decrease, and hospitals seeing a 1.8% Shortages of nursing homes will have consequential effects; families will not have safe, high-quality places to send loved ones and hospitals will not have places to discharge patients. Nursing home closures are especially alarming when you take into account that the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 5, 2023

George Valentine, AVP of New Groth & Development at Cox Communicaitons We recently spoke with George Valentine, Assistant Vice President of New Growth and Development at Cox Communications for his insights on the impact of leveraging smart hospital technology to power smart communities.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 21, 2023

COVID-19 on the Rise Again In a world affected by the ongoing COVID issues, hospitals have been at the forefront of battling the virus and caring for those affected. "It Bluntly put, there is no justification for a hospital to allow ANY non-patient to enter the building sick!!!! It is a fact. COVID cases are up again.

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ACHE

JUNE 30, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic created countless challenges for healthcare providers, but some silver-linings-minded leaders believe the health crisis also accelerated innovation in quality and safety. Muething, MD, chief quality officer at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, told Healthcare Executive. It needs to be relentless.”.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s a call to action for both the healthcare industry and healthcare providers to: Prioritize patient safety: Implement robust risk management strategies, invest in safer technologies, and ensure proper training and education for all personnel. With each advance in technology, cybercriminals sharpen their tools.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 9, 2024

Revolutionizing OR Staffing: iQueue Staff Planner Enhances Efficiency and Patient Safety Charge nurses and nurse managers have seen a significant 5-hour weekly reduction in administrative tasks thanks to iQueue Staff Planner, as discussed at LeanTaaS’ Transform Hospital Operations Summit in Chicago.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 16, 2022

In practice, this approach can take the shape of a “one-size fits all” solution, which may not account for the needs of specific populations or take advantage of integrating effective third-party solutions. The path forward requires a systems-based, patient-centric, and requirements-driven approach. A Way Forward.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

Current market pressures, however, compel hospitals, health systems and medical practices to reconsider their hesitancy in embracing these innovations. What’s more, patients are begging for better digital experiences – and are frustrated with healthcare’s lack of functionality. Leaders are sick of hearing it.

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Medi Leadership

AUGUST 11, 2022

A growing number of physicians are stepping into leadership roles in hospitals and health systems. The clinical quality and patient safety metrics that now directly impact the system’s revenue require real clinical redesign, something non-clinical executives cannot lead. . The First Table: Physician Leadership in a Hospital.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2023

Data privacy and security Within pharmaceutical , hospital, clinic and other healthcare settings, there is a need to balance the requirements of data protection and security with the need for innovation such as real-time alerting, predictive analysis, and telemedicine. million patients affected by data breaches in 2021 alone.

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KHN

APRIL 29, 2022

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. But customers must opt in to the feature, so it is likely unused in many hospitals.

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