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Teladoc Health Enhances Virtual Sitter Solution with AI to Improve Patient Safety and Efficiency

HIT Consultant

– Virtual Sitter aims to enhance patient safety, address workforce challenges, and improve care delivery for hospitals and health systems. Teladoc Health’s Virtual Sitter solution helps mitigate this risk by providing remote monitoring of patients who are at high risk of falling.

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How Temporal Artery Thermometry Improves Patient Safety Through Accurate Temperature Monitoring

HIT Consultant

With the proliferation of less accurate temperature monitoring options during the pandemic, it’s vital now more than ever that hospitals and medical facilities are leveraging accurate, trustworthy tools and technologies that promote patient safety.

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Monash's clinical AI collab with India's Apollo Hospitals and more briefs

Healthcare It News

The solution has also been rolled out across Sonic Healthcare and Healius. The project is part of a rural community preventive health initiative by the Primary Health Network, in partnership with Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network and the University of New England.

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Hospitals' patient experience, preventable infection improving after pandemic struggles, Leapfrog finds

Fierce Healthcare

The latest batch of Hospital Safety Grades from independent watchdog The Leapfrog Group suggest that patients’ care experiences, which deteriorated during and since the pandemic, may finally be tur | New data from the watchdog reflecting CMS-reported patient safety measures show that hospitals are, on average, working their way back from patient experience (..)

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Patient Concerns Dismissed Named #1 Patient Safety Concern in 2025

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ECRI , a global healthcare safety nonprofit, has identified dismissing patient, family, and caregiver concerns as the most significant threat to patient safety in 2025. Decreased trust: Patients feel unheard and invalidated, eroding trust in the healthcare system.

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Patient Safety Representatives Unite to Implement Global Patient Safety Action Plan in the United States

CDC

Preventable harm in the healthcare system is an urgent public health challenge, internationally and in the United States. Globally, more people die now from medical errors or other breakdowns in the quality and safety of healthcare services than from lack of access to them. (1) 2)(3) That’s where we come in.

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Advancing patient safety awareness by addressing ECRI’s top 10 patient safety concerns

Meditech

Patient safety has always been at the forefront of MEDITECH's mission. During this year’s Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 10-16), we are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of MEDITECH's internal Patient Safety/Priority Event (PS/PE) Management group.