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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Direct Impact on Patient Care and Recovery The consequences of cybersecurity incidents in healthcare go beyond the loss of data. When critical digital systems are compromised, the effects can be immediate and severe, with patient safety at risk. Cybersecurity in healthcare is not just an IT issueit is a matter of patient safety.

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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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CDC

MARCH 15, 2023

This blog is a part of a series that CDC launched to highlight the importance of patient safety by providing educational information and simple ways to help people stay informed on public safety topics. Moss, to learn more about the importance of patient engagement in infection prevention.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

Creating a Culture of Quality: Strategies for Hospital Leaders Quality improvement in hospitals is more than a goalits a commitment that requires an organization-wide cultural shift. For hospitals, its the foundation of patient safety, trust, and reputation. Clear Communication 2. Data Transparency 3.

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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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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2022

March 8, 2022 – As the world enters the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is issuing an urgent call-to-action to shore up the nation’s infection prevention and control (IPC) infrastructure. Arlington, Va.,

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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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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Glytec The modern-day hospital is grappling with an alarming trend. Hospitals and health systems have long understood the need to reduce preventable hypoglycemia, yet despite a renewed sense of urgency, many of them lack comprehensive glycemic management measures that can drive success.

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PDC Healthcare

OCTOBER 19, 2023

When a patient checks in to a hospital or a non-acute care facility, their personal and medical data needs to be recorded. Each patient has an EMR (Electronic Medical Record), which needs to be updated each time a patient needs care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 30, 2024

What You Should Know: – Trinity Guardion , a leader in hospital bed hygiene solutions, has successfully raised $6 million, including $3.5 Their flagship product, the Soteria Bed Barrier, gained FDA clearance in late 2022, serving as a robust solution to prevent mattress soiling, curb infection spread, and extend mattress life.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

UConn Health care teams actively monitor PROs to evaluate utilization, pain, function, clinical benefit, mental health, wellbeing and patient experience. Care teams are alerted immediately and can intervene quickly when a patient is concerned or isn’t progressing as expected.

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Home Health Care

MAY 30, 2022

The traditional brick-and-mortar hospital system is broken, often leaving patients in a condition that’s worse than when they first arrived. The findings throw further support for facility-based care alternatives, including the types of hospital-at-home models that lean heavily on home health and home care agencies.

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Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 27, 2023

Patient safety has been top-of-mind for me for decades. When I learned of the startling statistics surrounding patient deaths in hospital settings, I knew a change in patient care was imperative. It was such an honor to meet and speak with so many leaders and ministers of health who are dedicated to patient safety.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A fundamental issue in England’s National Health Service (NHS) patient safety culture development, however, is whether health care staff implement the necessary communication changes in light of adverse health care events. About 500 times each year we are not preventing the preventable.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Like using preventive measures such as diet and exercise to stave off heart disease and other dangerous health conditions, healthcare has a distinct opportunity to prevent the spread of infections by addressing one of the primary root causes, improper cleaning and disinfecting. In total, fungal infections kill at least 1.6

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 18, 2023

–( BUSINESS WIRE )–The Patient Safety Movement Foundation celebrates their 10 th anniversary with an in-person summit that brings together world renowned experts to discuss today’s challenges and solutions in patient safety. Michael Ramsay, Chief Executive Officer, Patient Safety Movement Foundation.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2025

These attacks target critical healthcare data, putting patient safety and institutional integrity at risk. When patient data is compromised, errors in identifying patients or managing medications can lead to severe medical mishaps, risking patient safety.

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Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 30, 2023

–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Joe Kiani, founder of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF), has been awarded the 2023 Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award in the individual category, along with Dr. Kathryn Kellogg, Vice President for Patient Safety at the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 3, 2025

Bishan Nandy, Director of Hospital Administration at UI Health As healthcare evolves, operating rooms (ORs) are undergoing a profound transformation. The future of ORs hinges on efficiency, patient experience, and access, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and smart design.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Hidden Key to Higher HCAHPS Scores: Better Use of Communication Boards The Power of Clear, Consistent Communication in Healthcare Patient communication boards are a simple yet highly effective tool in improving patient safety, satisfaction, and hospital performance.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 17, 2023

One in five people who have a heart attack will be re-admitted to the hospital for a second one within five years, and there are about 335,000 recurrent heart attacks in the U.S. Patient Safety-Oriented Cardiovascular Health Research Headquartered in Utah with locations in eight states and additional operations across the western U.S.,

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

MARCH 17, 2017

I have always wondered why patient safety is talked about by itself. As if all other procedures, policies, and practices are not about safety. And why should patient safety be separate from the patient experience? For staff, patient safety is a lot like playing in tune for a musician.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

DECEMBER 2, 2016

How can patients have good experiences if they do not feel safe? And, how is patient safety evidenced beyond the accidents that do not happen? Safety precautions are ever present in our daily lives. Or the protocols for preventing falls that seem inconvenient because the patient seems too healthy to need them.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

hospitals have been working to improve the rate of nosocomial infections in America, there is a long way to go. One in 25 patients in U.S. hospitals still contracts an HAI, the Group’s recent report on HAIs attested. The lives that succumb to HAIs are cut short for reasons that are largely preventable.

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Patient Safety

JANUARY 12, 2022

In 1974, pharmacist Michael Cohen learned of a serious adverse event with insulin at a hospital and began sharing information about it with other pharmacists to prevent the error from happening again.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Note: This is a popular post from 2014 that is still relevant to the critical issue of patient safety. Florence Nightingale was not only the Mother of Modern Nursing; she also was the Mother of Healthcare Design and Patient Safety. She demanded ongoing documentation of patient progress and invented the nurse call system.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 9, 2025

Every Patient, Every Day: Combining High-Touch Care with High-Tech Rounding Solutions Contents Overview 1. The Hospital Challenge: Meeting Patient Expectations Amid Constraints Staffing Shortages Financial Pressures Evolving Patient Expectations 2. This crisis limits the time available for nurse leader rounding.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch , a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic region.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 2, 2023

President Clinton calls for a culture of conversion to promote patient safety in healthcare. June 2, 2023 — President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, headlined day two of the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, presented by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF).

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 2, 2023

President Clinton calls for a culture of conversion to promote patient safety in healthcare. June 2, 2023 — President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, headlined day two of the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, presented by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF).

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

What You Should Know: – Inovalon , a provider of cloud-based healthcare data analytics solutions, announced today the acquisition of VigiLanz , a prominent provider of SaaS-based clinical surveillance and patient safety software.

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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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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Broadly, patients being discharged from the hospital to home health care will not need advanced approval. BCBS of Massachusetts touted what it will do for hospitals and patients looking forward to discharge. “We Prior authorization requirements will be dropped for home health care in commercial plans by Jan.

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Beterra

JULY 10, 2024

Patient safety is a critical component of healthcare quality. Despite significant advancements, preventable harm remains a significant concern in healthcare settings. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM) to improve patient safety in hospital settings.

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