HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2024

Ashley Franks, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at TigerConnect Nurses, the backbone of the medical field, have been facing a critical threat: burnout. A worrying 29% of nurses reported feeling like they’re at their wits’ end several times a week or even daily.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 9, 2025

The Benefits: Elevating Patient Care and Outcomes Improved Patient Satisfaction Higher HCAHPS Scores Optimized Resource Allocation Proactive Problem Solving Enhanced Patient Outcomes 4. In a hospital environment de fined by increasing complexity, patient experience remains one of the most critical metrics for success.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 31, 2025

What You Should Know: – AvaSure, the leader in AI-powered virtual care virtual care solutions, today announced the acquisition of Nurse Disrupted, a nurse-founded virtual nursing platform designed to enhance care delivery across both hospital and home-based settings.

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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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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. Get Your Free Template Now Take Action Today!

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Hospital Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When RaDonda Vaught, a registered nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was criminally prosecuted for a medication error, it sent shockwaves through the medical community.

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p3care

MAY 31, 2024

For instance, patient and caregiver experience, care coordination, and patient safety. Patient Experience Patient satisfaction level and their experiences are necessary components. Network incorporating individual practices of ACO Professionals.

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Home Health Care

MAY 23, 2024

Instead, the company made its nurses a part of this process from the start. When it comes to AI, it is especially important to have nurses weigh in, because they don’t always have a favorable view of it. I’m hopeful that it’s going to give them a better user experience, and, in turn, create a better patient experience.”

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2024

I’m looking forward to seeing how AI is being applied to help clinicians, patients, and other staff members provide better patient experiences and outcomes. Virtual nursing is particularly emphasized as critical to improving healthcare outcomes and addressing workforce shortages.

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Readiness Rounds

JANUARY 27, 2025

For hospitals, its the foundation of patient safety, trust, and reputation. IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) Resources on building a culture of quality and patient safety: ihi.org. National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) Strategies for patient safety and quality improvement: npsf.org.

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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.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

What You Should Know: – Press Ganey , a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ( NDNQI ). What is the NDNQI?

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2024

But the team won’t know unless they ask the question and delve into each piece of the patient puzzle. Using Such Questions – Along With HRO Principles – to Enhance Patient Safety To implement these beautiful questions, organizations can learn from other segments — high reliability organizations (HROs), to be exact.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In a study conducted in 2022, more than one-third (34%) of the participating registered nurses (RN) stated that it was likely they would leave bedside nursing by the end of the year. Forty-three percent of the nurses that responded to Hospital IQ ’s recent survey echoed that sentiment.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Doctors experiencing burnout are twice as likely to be involved in patient safety incidents, including medication errors and substandard care. This, in turn, leads to a sharp decline in patient satisfaction. For example, clinicians can pull insights from data to help identify at-risk patients and deliver the best treatments.

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PDC Healthcare

APRIL 1, 2025

Welcoming newborns into the world is a tremendous job for Labor and Delivery (L&D) nurses because they have two patients mother and baby needing support and protection. Newborns complicate care and identification because they are typically indistinguishable and speechless.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

While it seems like a win for patients and caregivers, the model has seen growing pains. One challenge is clarifying the distinction between HaH care and other in-home health care services like home health or skilled nursing facility (SNF) care,” Heather O’Sullivan, president of Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home, told HHCN.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A strong cybersecurity program is important due to the significant risks posed by cyber threats, including data breaches, ransomware attacks, and potential disruptions to patient care. Mitigating risk and having a tailored cybersecurity plan will help ensure that patient experience is the priority – not an outdated IT infrastructure.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As I explained in an earlier post , just as it was legal for the medical director of a Texas nursing home to prescribe hydroxychloroquine, in this case, ivermectin has already been approved by the FDA. As Professor John Aloysius Cogan, Jr. In most states, medical malpractice laws have been rewritten to heavily favor physicians.

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Vie Healthcare

JUNE 3, 2022

In Episode 47 of The Healthcare Leadership Experience, Lisa is joined by Jim Cagliostro, a Registered Nurse and VIE’s Clinical Operations Performance Improvement Expert. Together they discuss the evolving role of nursing in today’s healthcare organizations and its inherent challenges. So I love being a nurse. Show Topics.

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Spok Inc

MARCH 15, 2022

The following are three top challenges that are keeping nurses up at night. The patient experience; 2. Nurse retention and recruitment; 3. The post 3 challenges keeping nurses up at night (3 technology solutions to help) appeared first on Spok Inc. Keeping up with the rate of change.

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CHQ Healthcare

JUNE 21, 2021

A recent CHG Healthcare survey of more than 1,200 physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and registered nurses found that 80% of providers were experiencing burnout in their careers before the COVID-19 pandemic — and 64% of those experiencing burnout said the pandemic made it worse.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Here’s where technology can help scale the precious human resources that are physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and other trained clinicians whose well-being has eroded starting before the pandemic. Finally, we get to sustainability which translates into financial as well as environmental challenges.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

Headlines: The Halo Effect: Elevating Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) Through Environment 5 Crucial Aspects of a Hospital's Physical Environment #1: Cleanliness: Beyond Aesthetics - A Pillar of Patient Safety #2: Maintenance: A Reflection of Excellence in Patient Care #3. Utilize available resources for optimal results.

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Readiness Rounds

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We’ve Got 16 Ideas You Can Try for Free Because our clients are hospitals just like yours, we’ve seen their patient experience struggles, and through working with them for over 15 years, we’ve identified 16 small areas that can make a huge difference in the patient’s experience.

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Sequence Health

APRIL 3, 2025

They ensure patient safety and reduce the burden on emergency rooms. Key Takeaways Medical call centers are essential for emergency triage, providing 24/7 support and timely medical guidance to enhance patient safety and satisfaction.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 16, 2023

Improving Patient Satisfaction Using the 5 Ps of Hourly Rounding By consistently addressing the needs of patients, hospitals can improve the patient's safety and comfort, and overall patient satisfaction, while also identifying and addressing any potential issues in a timely manner. The nurses really care about me.”

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Healthcare Leadership

MARCH 19, 2023

Since that is the case, healthcare providers should spend more time and energy improving their discharge experiences. Over the past year, I there has been a lot of focus on the front-end patient experience.

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Readiness Rounds

JULY 31, 2023

This blog aims to address these uncertainties and provide insights into optimizing the use of patient communication boards. → Are you unsure whether they genuinely contribute to patient safety and enhance the overall patient experience? The 8 Dos of a Successful Patient Communication Board 1.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2023

strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. Ballad Health partners with MedAware to leverage an artificial intelligence platform to improve patient safety and optimize pharmacy workflows.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

The table from Deloitte’s report details workflows for nurses with the opportunity for automation – and time saving. That’s just a quick snapshot of a nurse-patient encounter. The report calls out the link between staffing shortages, workforce burnout, and lack of trust in leadership.

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Cloud Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Doctors experiencing burnout are twice as likely to be involved in patient safety incidents, including medication errors and substandard care. This, in turn, leads to a sharp decline in patient satisfaction. For example, clinicians can pull insights from data to help identify at-risk patients and deliver the best treatments.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 5, 2023

Here are examples of the many ways hospital operations can streamline through automation, these include: – Asset Tracking – This traditionally manual task that takes up everyone’s time, administrators, nursing, clinical engineering, environmental services, and facilities.

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Healthcare Leadership

APRIL 24, 2023

Addressing transitional care is important because it is a time when patients are vulnerable. Transitional Care: Moving patients from one care setting to another”, American Journal of Nursing , September 2008, [link] , accessed 24 April 2023. Naylor M, Keating SA. Kansagara D, Chan B, Harmon D, Englander, H. Valverde, P.A.,

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 5, 2023

Opening Keynote—Responsible AI: Prioritizing patient safety, privacy, and ethical considerations — Tuesday, April 18, 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM CT. Nurses’ Evolving Role in Informatics During the Digital Transformation Era — Wednesday, April 19, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM CT. April 20, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM CT.

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Cloud Blogs

APRIL 5, 2023

Opening KeynoteResponsible AI: Prioritizing patient safety, privacy, and ethical considerations Tuesday, April 18, 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM CT. Nurses' Evolving Role in Informatics During the Digital Transformation Era Wednesday, April 19, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM CT. Stop by our booth, have a seat, and join your peers for these sessions.

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Vie Healthcare

JUNE 24, 2022

These benefits include patient safety, Joe’s role in bridging the gap between IT and nursing, virtual resources for novice nurses, and how to encourage staff buy-in. Joe outlined his career history and the need to learn a whole new language in nursing informatics. My MSN was in nursing education.

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