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Deep dive: A tour of all-digital Oklahoma Heart Hospital, where automation is the norm

Healthcare It News

Oklahoma Heart Hospital was founded in 2002 with the idea of being something truly different – an all-digital hospital with a heavy focus on the patient experience and the latest automation that would change the way healthcare is delivered. David Miles is chief information officer at Oklahoma Heart Hospital.

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At US Hospitals, a Drug Mix-Up Is Just a Few Keystrokes Away

KHN

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. “It seems inherently safer.”

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How Georgetown Home Care Continues to Lower Readmission Rates for Hospital Partners

Home Health Care

based Georgetown Home Care (GHC) has yet again lowered readmission rates for a major hospital. Its readmission success ostensibly began in 2019 when the home care agency first worked with spinal surgery patients at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. They kept seeing data on the readmission problem with hospitals.

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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center boosts telehealth with $600K from the FCC

Healthcare It News

" In the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center expanded its platform and developed an integrated nurse triage telehealth solution pilot to prevent critical care patients from ending up in the ER. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Hospital-acquired Pneumonia is Killing Patients. There’s a Simple Way to Stop It.

Briggs Healthcare

Kaiser Health News published this eye-opening piece – Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Hospital patients not getting their teeth brushed, or not brushing their teeth themselves, is believed to be a leading cause of hundreds of thousands of cases of pneumonia a year in patients who have not been put on a ventilator.

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Addressing Point-of-Care Ultrasound’s Shadow IT Problem

HIT Consultant

By administering ultrasound technology at the point of care, whether that be the patient’s bedside or an ambulance, POCUS prevents patients from being sent to another facility for imaging or waiting for a radiologist. Across hospital settings, IT infrastructure has not kept pace with ultrasound innovation.

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Unleashing the Potential of Implementation Science to Prevent Harm in Healthcare

Patient Safety Movement

One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. The shameful reality is that it can take up to 17 years between the publication of protocols for preventing harm, and their actual implementation in the clinic.