Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan City, Taiwan has become the second-highest-ranking organisation in the latest HIMSS Digital Health Indicator. HIMSS noted the hospital's regular tracking and reporting of KPIs, with each department having its own departmental-level indicator.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Handwashing adherence is on the up-and-up as more hospitals are holding their leadership accountable for hand hygiene, patient safety watchdog The Leapfrog Group reports. |

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CDC

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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) We are the founders of the United States branch of Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS US), an international network of patient and family representatives.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 21, 2024

National University Hospital testing Alzheimer's predictive AI from Korea Singapore's National University Hospital is collaborating with medical AI company Heuron from South Korea to test the latter's AI solutions for screening and predicting Alzheimer's disease.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Monash to tap Apollo Hospitals DB for clinical AI projects Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology has tied up with one of India's biggest hospital groups, Apollo Hospitals, to test and validate clinical AI. An initial $34 million ($22 million) was invested in ARIIA during its founding in 2021.

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Patient Safety Blog

MAY 17, 2021

Look at any hospital or healthcare organization’s mission statement, and you’ll see that it addresses patient safety in some way—often listing safety as the number-one priority. However, patient safety isn’t just about avoiding errors and incidents to keep patients and staff safe from harm.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

MARCH 5, 2021

To a patient, safety is an assumption. The idea that they are unsafe when they are sick enough to even go to an emergency room or be admitted to a hospital, is unimaginable. Patient Safety Risks: Then vs Now. The vulnerabilities of patients may be individually identified and measured. The C.A.R.E.

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Patient Safety Blog

MAY 17, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a rallying cry about patient safety as a global public health concern—and with good reason. There’s a 1 in 300 chance of a patient experiencing harm in the healthcare setting, while by comparison, an airline passenger has a 1 in 1 million chance of being harmed.

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The Rand Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

There is clear and consistent evidence that minoritized patients are at high risk for safety issues. health care system tracks patient safety too often makes their experiences invisible. Better reporting would allow hospitals and other providers to identify disparities in care, and to address them.

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Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In patient safety terms in the NHS England, there have been positives and negatives over the past year to reflect on, and for 2022 there are interesting developments on the horizon. In this post I will discuss a small number of patient safety matters of major impact. This is one of the patient safety negatives of 2021.

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Health Care Dive

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Incidents of falls and trauma and of objects unintentionally left in a body after surgery decreased by about 25% since 2012, according to the group that assigns letter grades to hospitals.

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Bill Of Health

APRIL 22, 2022

In terms of health care practice and patient safety, these underpinning basic, foundational concepts include the need for proper patient communication strategies. The consequences of failures in patient communication can be devastating. By John Tingle and Amanda Cattini. A litigation link? A global service industry.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In terms of health law and patient safety research, the decolonization of national and global patient safety systems and structures seems an interesting perspective to further peruse. The patient safety context. It pervades vast areas of academic and professional life and discourse. Problems of definition.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Valley Health System is constructing a new hospital in Paramus, New Jersey – presenting an opportunity to transform healthcare delivery for the surrounding communities.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Francesco Pompei, CEO and Founder of Exergen Corporation Accurate and frequent temperature monitoring is paramount when it comes to ensuring favorable patient outcomes in the medical community. A delay in the administration of antibiotics can be a significant cause of mortality in hospital settings.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 3, 2023

Three of the most stubborn and dangerous healthcare-associated infections are on the rise in acute care settings across the country, according to the Leapfrog Group, which published its spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grades on Wednesday. "Infections like these can be life or death for some patients.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

– Virtual Sitter aims to enhance patient safety, address workforce challenges, and improve care delivery for hospitals and health systems. This technology offers a valuable tool for hospitals and health systems to enhance patient safety, optimize workforce efficiency, and improve the overall quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 13, 2023

What You Should Know: – The pediatric mental health crisis is named the number one patient safety concern, according to ECRI’s 2023 list of most pressing patient safety concerns. Here are the top 10 patient safety concerns for 2023: 1.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

To mark World Patient Safety Day on September 17, the patient-led Light Collective plans to lead discussions in Washington, D.C., designed to help ensure that patient concerns about health data aggregation are given the stage. But, patients want healthcare's use of AI to be clear.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 30, 2024

"Nurses are all for tech that enhances our skills and the patient care experience, but what we are witnessing in our hospitals is the degradation and devaluation of our nursing practice through the use of these untested technologies," she said.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

By detailing these specifications, preference cards help streamline surgical planning, foster improved communication among the operating room (OR) staff, and ultimately enhance patient safety. In an environment where precision, efficiency, and safety are paramount, these limitations can have significant implications.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the experience gained and quality outcomes demonstrated, the health system decided to take a similar approach in lower-acuity care settings that still required direct, continuous observation of at-risk patients. "The carts were immediately deployed in every COVID surge unit and our field hospital." " MARKETPLACE.

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KHN

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 19, 2022

After looking at and digesting the data, one thing is very clear: hospitals, by and large, have not embraced a culture of safety or come to the realization that any occurrence of patient harm is absolutely unacceptable. If not, here’s the link: [link]. Where are the consumer watchdogs for healthcare?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

According to a social media announcement, they signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to improve the centres of excellence at its flagship hospital, Sunway Medical Centre, which specialises in spine, neuroscience, and cardiovascular medicine. Over 850 surgeons have been trained in using da Vinci RAS system to date.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By detailing these specifications, preference cards help streamline surgical planning, foster improved communication among the operating room (OR) staff, and ultimately enhance patient safety. In an environment where precision, efficiency, and safety are paramount, these limitations can have significant implications.

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Fierce Healthcare

JUNE 7, 2023

Measurable differences in patient safety across race, ethnicities and insurance coverage persist even among hospitals rated at the top of their class, according to a new analysis of Leapfrog Hospit | New findings from a Leapfrog Group and Urban Institute analysis suggest that patient safety disparities are not driven by individual hospitals, but are (..)

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

We conducted a study to explore the relationship between the various types of events that occur in an isolation environment and the associated factors, which may have implications for the likelihood of the event and severity of patient harm.

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Patient Safety

JUNE 17, 2021

Transfer to intensive care unit >6 hours Methods: Surgical inpatients from a variety of surgical specialties (general, vascular, breast, colorectal, hepatobiliary, and plastic surgery) in a large university teaching hospital were included.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2024

1 Despite advances over the past decade and the technology’s power to enhance patient safety and enable greater efficiencies, Andrew Meyer, Director of Global Standards at GS1 US, said many healthcare organizations remain “gun shy” about RFID. “There’s so much you can do.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing the work already being done.

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PDC Healthcare

JANUARY 29, 2024

Caregivers know that preserving patient safety is instrumental in every hospital. As we enter 2024, new challenges and events in the constantly changing world of healthcare mean that hospital staff must stay up to date with patient safety standards.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Patient safety is only possible with accurate and comprehensive medical records, and this includes those records available in the active archive. Twenty years ago, seeing the records department pushing a cart full of paper records was normal on a hospital unit. Kel Pults, DHA, MSN, RN-BC, Chief Clinical Officer at MediQuant.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

’ “We know all the benefits of digital health tools and services in terms of patient safety, care quality and cost reduction,” said Dr Seroussi. ” Healthcare without Harm produced a global roadmap in 2021, which lies out three pathways where hospitals can make improvements.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2022

Even before the pandemic, hospital IPC programs were underfunded and understaffed. The pandemic exacerbated those patient safety weaknesses, leaving healthcare facilities with insufficient capacity to prevent common, often deadly, healthcare-associated infections. For the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In particular, bedside telehealth can reinforce the efforts of on-site care teams, increase patient engagement and drive efficiencies for hospitals. Mike Brandofino, Caregility’s President and COO, talks about the benefits of bedside telehealth technology and how health systems can scale telehealth at the point of care.

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