Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 2, 2022

The purpose of this primer is to provide updated information to the patient safety community about the challenges of ensuring the safe care of older adults in Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes (NHs) associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the federal and state efforts taken to mitigate these challenges. “The

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2024

RJ Frasca, VP at Shield Screening The nursing profession is facing an unprecedented crisis, with burnout reaching critical levels due to a severe shortage of nurses. million nurses. Nurses are increasingly advocating for more manageable nurse-to-patient ratios as understaffing continues to strain hospital systems.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 4, 2024

Ali Morin, MSN, RN-BC, VP of Nursing Informatics at symplr In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, where tomorrow’s challenges are unpredictable, the need for strategically staffed and crisis-ready hospitals has never been more crucial.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2023

filters out unnecessary alarms and alerts healthcare providers only when it detects critical events, thereby enhancing patient safety and improving clinical outcomes. How can AI improve nurse retention and patient outcomes? By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, CalmWave, Inc., CalmWave, Inc.’s,

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Before the digital era, healthcare providers relied on paper-based records, which often led to inefficiencies and errors in managing and transferring patient data. They can also collaborate and communicate with their peers and patients efficiently and securely using EHR.

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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. However, it's important for healthcare organizations to enable AI for everyone across the entire care process.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Some nurses are expressing concerns about the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence and virtual nursing in health care, arguing that these technologies could compromise patient safety. AI has various applications in the health care industry. Many nurses are cautiously optimistic about AI.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Within healthcare, burnout may affect bias, individual well-being, patient safety, quality of care, healthcare employee satisfaction and retention, erosion in the healthcare human capital national pool among other key performance indicators. health-care workers say they are now considering leaving the profession.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Prior to COVID, policymakers and the medical industry had many assumptions about telehealth related to patient safety, quality of care, fraud, and provider and patient openness to virtual medical encounters. The national scope of practice reform would require states to allow non-physician providers (e.g.,

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Joe’s passion for patient safety has been a driving force behind breakthrough developments in medical innovation at the company he founded, Masimo. These efforts are intended to complement previous investments in services to prevent unnecessary nursing home admissions and help nursing home residents transition back home when possible.

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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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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 30, 2023

highlight the ongoing challenge of appropriately balancing accessibility of care with patient safety. While increased accessibility of mental health care services through telehealth is a valuable goal, if our aim is the well-being of patients, safety must be paramount. About Cerebral Inc.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 1, 2023

There were several key changes this year for the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. Along with our Founder, Joe Kiani, we are laser focused on achieving a safer healthcare system, with zero preventable harm—both for patients and clinicians. Aligned Incentives—Payment for quality of care, not volume of care.

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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. 01:55 The evolving role of nursing in the US.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

Save the Date: June 1-2, 2023 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit The 10-year anniversary marks professionals like you making a significant difference in eliminating preventable medical errors. Patient Safety Leadership Award Recognition Joe Kiani Receives the 2023 Robert L.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 17, 2023

Instead, surveyors should investigate further to determine whether the failure could have been the result of something more basic to safe patient care, such as insufficient monitoring and/or patient assessment and evaluation. Resources to Improve Quality of Care: Check out CMS’s new Quality in Focus interactive video series.

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

Don Berwick—one of the original giants in patient safety and a founding member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement—gave an inspiring keynote address. First, he recognized the superb healthcare force we have in the US, how dedicated they are, and how frustrated they are by the avoidable harm to patients that is occurring.

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Sheppard Health Law

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The debate is centered on what services advanced practice providers (“APPs”) who hold Master’s Degrees ( e.g. , Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, Dental Hygienists, etc.) Additionally, the growth of rural elderly and near-elderly populations is increasing demand for primary care services in those areas.

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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Readiness Rounds

APRIL 26, 2018

White Plains Hospital First in the Country To Adopt Innovative System-Wide Platform To Enhance Patient Safety, Experience, and Quality of Care. New Program Takes the Hospital’s Exceptional Care to the Next Level. In today’s healthcare marketplace, patients have a choice. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 28, 2023

President Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, joined us again and demonstrated his strong commitment to patient safety. The event fostered a high-level exchange of ideas and initiatives to improve global patient safety.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Health outcomes and Medicaid program integrity Health outcomes are a function of the quality of care. CMS has been focusing heavily on quality of care for the last decade. Healthcare providers willing to commit fraud often do so at the expense of quality care.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 4, 2023

Put QAPI at the center of your fix process… In addition to using QAPI to improve VBP scores, home health organizations can also use it to improve patient safety, reduce costs, and improve the overall quality of care. Nurses, home health aides, therapists — even schedulers. But how will they do it?

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 20, 2023

Ensuring patient safety is at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath: First, Do No Harm. As the nation’s largest payer for health care, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) mission in our National Quality Strategy includes ensuring everyone is safe when they receive care. Michelle Schreiber, MD.,

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

When the boundaries to care are no longer limited to the hospital setting, providers can ensure prompt access to care at every stage of the patient journey thus promoting optimal patient outcomes, which is the primary objective. Adam McMullin, CEO of AvaSure. Dr. Oleg Bess, cofounder and CEO of 4medica.

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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. However, it's important for healthcare organizations to enable AI for everyone across the entire care process.

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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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Home Health Care

AUGUST 27, 2024

Regarding lines of business, we are home care services, home health aides, and private-care attendants, so that’s what we’ve been doing since the company’s inception. We do some nursing to manage our services, primarily the home care service, but we bill for the home health aide, personal care aide and consumer-directed program.

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Lexis Nexis

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Another very common use of our data is to leverage our vast consumer data warehouse and linking capabilities to help ensure disparate patient records are linked appropriately. Having SDoH related data on patients and members can help identify patients at risk earlier, to then address disparities in access to care or quality of care.

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Home Health Care

JANUARY 26, 2022

I’ve been a nurse for 25 years and spent 18 years as a clinical in the emergency room. For the last 10 years, before joining the Joint Commission, I have been a field nurse, a director of operations and a clinical manager with one of the largest home care providers in the country. People will pay for quality.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

North Carolina’s InCK program , led by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, brings together partners from Medicaid, behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, Title V, mobile crisis, and more to coordinate care and address the health and social needs of children in five counties.

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Briggs Healthcare

AUGUST 22, 2022

In February 2022, President Biden announced a comprehensive set of reforms to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent so that potential residents and their loved ones can make informed care choices. [1]

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Make your commitment to ZERO… starting with culture of safety from your executive governing board down to the lowest paid employees.” In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2022

In February 2022, for example, results from a nurse survey commissioned by a prominent staffing firm showed 56% of nurses reported that their mental health and well-being has suffered due to the pandemic, and 41% are considering leaving the profession for good. How Patient Flow Challenges Contribute to Burnout.

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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 board must be positioned directly within the patient's line of sight.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 2, 2022

In February 2022, for example, results from a nurse survey commissioned by a prominent staffing firm showed 56% of nurses reported that their mental health and well-being has suffered due to the pandemic, and 41% are considering leaving the profession for good. How Patient Flow Challenges Contribute to Burnout.

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