HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Exo Iris gives caregivers—including physicians, nurses, EMTs, and clinicians in emergency, acute care, outpatient, and at-home settings—a window into the human body for immediate answers at the point of care. For caregivers who’ve bemoaned out-of-touch medical technology, you’ve been heard.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 27, 2023

Medical technology companies are developing new devices to assist us. National Nurses Week: May 6-12, 2023 This Nurses Week, we salute all nurses around the world for the attention and care they provide to ensure safe and equitable healthcare for every patient. Nurses Day on May 6 (U.S.)

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

By sending patients home earlier, aren’t we just transferring the burden of their care onto them, their loved ones, and community-based nurses? And it is not fair to strictly rely on community-based nurses who may visit a recovering patient for a few minutes, possibly twice or three times a day.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

We see a child receiving a vaccination from a doctor, held by a woman in a white gown (presumably, a nurse). According to various art historians’ analyses of the image, the occasion takes place in a medical laboratory with the child surrounded by animals providing the vaccine’s serum. Or a doctor and a nurse?

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In Hong Kong and South Korea, the Israeli Temi robot was used in nursing homes to allow families to communicate with quarantined residents through video calls, as well as being utilized in hospitals, airports, and offices. IvorIvor has been in candidate search for more than 30 years.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

With a focus on patient outcomes, healthcare leaders who keep the key benefits of data integration in mind will more efficiently overcome the challenges of adopting the most valuable medical technologies for their organization.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

In Gallup’s most recent poll on the most honest and ethical professions in America, nurses, doctors, pharmacists and dentists ranked in the top 5, with nurses topping the list. But the situation still gets worse.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

NEW FEDERAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NURSING HOME SAFETY The White House has just announced a plan to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes, aimed to protect seniors from an industry known for its lack of accountability. To learn more about this important and developing issue, be sure to read the full article.

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Healthcare Success

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The coronavirus pandemic has significantly increased the usage of “smart” wearable medical technologies , like smartwatches and fitness trackers. Developing multiple personas helps adapt your medical device marketing strategy to your ideal customer's preferences in your target markets.

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Patient Safety Movement

MAY 18, 2023

I already feel the momentum being created by patients and patient families, patient safety organizations, healthcare facilities, industry and medical organizations, physicians and nurses, pharmacists, politicians, and even predictive analytics and artificial intelligence.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

ECRI builds this report of the Top 10 patient safety issues leveraging its long-time expertise in this field: their staff are expert across the health care landscape including people in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, risk management, and of course patient safety and quality.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As someone who works in a clinic that serves marginalized and underserved communities, she describes the important role pharmacists can play on a healthcare team alongside doctors and nurses to ensure patients get the appropriate medications with minimal drug interactions. Of the seven resulting deaths, one was deemed preventable.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 1, 2023

Yet recent studies have found that nurses only complied with handwashing procedures 42% of the time and physicians only 38% of the time. However, hospital-acquired infections are actually on the rise since the pandemic, according to the CDC, as healthcare workers are still washing or desanitizing their hands less than they should.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 4, 2022

That patient must manage many clinical and lifestyle workflows through one 24-hour day — for example, measuring blood glucose levels, tracking blood pressure and activity/exercise, and communicating with a nurse practitioner, health coach, or doctor’s office as well as receiving advice or support from clinical team members.

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Patient Safety Movement

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I would especially like to recognize those physicians and nurses who have made a point of coming to these battle areas from the safety of their homes. The PSMF was established through the support of the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

health citizens: that is, consumers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians (especially nurses, pharmacists, and physicians). Every day this week in this Health Populi blog, I will discuss these events and their implications for health care, most importantly impacts and import for U.S.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 1, 2023

“Failures to develop world-class infection control facilities put both health workers and patients at risk, but there was also the issue of transitions of care, which greatly affected elderly patients and led to the virus spreading through nursing homes. That should have been part of our thinking from a patient safety perspective.”

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Patient Safety Movement

JULY 25, 2023

With bipartisan support, the Patient Safety Act, a bill that would limit nurse-to-patient ratios in Pennsylvania hospitals, passed the State House and is headed to the State Senate, according to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. An article published by CNN Health updated the state of current efforts to create a National Patient Safety Board.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 16, 2023

care.ai, an advanced Smart Care Facility Platform partners with Samsung to bring the highest quality graphics and display to care settings, elevating the patient experience by transforming hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities with smarter, more responsive care environments.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 1, 2023

This fill-in-the-box technology direct the surgeon to write his/her initials in the surgical site along with 3 additional checkboxes for the patient, nurse, and anesthesiologist to crosscheck and confirm with a written checkmark that the correct surgical site has been identified. suffer from a wrong-site surgery each week.

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Patient Safety Movement

AUGUST 29, 2023

We have had a bad time this last week affecting the NHS in England, as the case of Lucy Letby, a neonatal nurse in Chester, was concluded. I am extremely grateful to those nurses, doctors, and other caregivers that took the time and have the commitment and dedication to “getting things right.” We were fortunate, though not all are.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

” Physicians and nurses began the calendar year 2020 with a great degree of emotional burnout, anxiety and depression, the 2020 Medscape National Physician Burnout and Suicide Report warned. We must acknowledge the heroic sacrifices that front-line healthcare professionals have endured in the fight against COVID-19.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Andrews Kwabena Nyantakyi, a US Navy veteran and registered nurse, founded Elijeko Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, in 2016. While I was getting prepped for my procedure, I spoke with the nurse about delegation of tasks, accountability, and ultimately where quality and safety stood in the line of priority for the facility.

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Patient Safety Movement

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This statistic includes doctors and nurses who are not privy to this data for their own hospitals. The Foundation’s annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit brings together all stakeholders, including patients, healthcare providers, medical technology companies, government employers, and private payers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2019

There is so much that can be done with the amazing human capital on the front lines of health care in America – the nurses, the physicians and the pharmacists who happen to be the most trusted professions in the country, Gallup tells us. Marie raises a good point: I would translate this as, “health care stakeholders in the U.S.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

CHAIRMAN’S COLUMN Two key elements as we address the senseless loss of life and continued harm in maternal and neonatal health are hierarchy of decision making and transparency of outcomes in an increasingly fearful environment for expectant mothers and partners, midwives, nurses, and relevant doctors.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

Launched in 2013 , the team now has about 150 health care consultants, spanning Chief Nursing Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, ex-department heads of hospitals — the range of professionals who can, as Sean said, “dig in and redesign care pathways that optimize performance through design.”

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Vie Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Since 2007, Jim has been a registered nurse working in critical care, perioperative services, and outpatient settings at nationally-recognized medical facilities across three states, you’ll hear conversations on relevant and trending topics in healthcare and much more. Two, fun fact, I drove a 1985 Chevette in 2005.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 28, 2023

He identified the integration of innovative medical technology and devices as crucial for effecting change. A medication dispensing error at a DC-area nursing home with a history of such errors almost cost a 75-year-old woman her life, as reported by ABC 7 News in Washington, DC.

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Patient Safety Movement

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The APSF president, Daniel Cole, MD, chose to focus this year on “Emerging Medical Technologies—A Patient Safety Perspective on Wearables, Big Data and Remote Care.” Just a few days before on September 6, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) held its Stoelting Conference.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2018

Consumers-patients highly trust their doctors, their nurses, their pharmacists, above all professions in the U.S. Making those connections via telehealth and virtual health technology, from a pure technical standpoint, is do-able today.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

True enough, in the latest Gallup Poll on honesty and ethics in professions in America, the leaders in trusted roles were nurses, pharmacists and doctors. The best new tech innovations in health and medical care should and must be coupled with empathy on the human side and respect for patients and providers alike.

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Patient Safety Movement

JANUARY 31, 2024

UChicago Medicine nurses say “a strike is not off the table” over patient safety concerns and hold an informational picket and rally on MLK Day, according to National Nurses United. The PSMF was established through the support of the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation, and Competition in Healthcare.

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Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 1, 2023

Hospitals are encouraged to make a formal commitment to ZERO preventable deaths, and healthcare technology companies are asked to sign the Open Data Pledge to share their data so that predictive algorithms that can identify errors before they become fatal can be developed. [link] Yours, Michael A.E.

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