p3care
JUNE 14, 2021
Running a medical practice requires serious efforts and administration that does not come in handy. Physicians already have a lot on their plate. They have to consider patient safety, procedure documentation, HIPAA compliance, and on top of that, they have to stay up-to-date with industry knowledge, so it is not possible for them to manage everything all at once.
Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2021
The pandemic ushered in millions of peoples’ first digital health experiences, many of which will persist according to the 23rd Annual U.S. Consumer Technology Ownership & Market Potential Study , published by the Consumer Technology Association. CTA conducted an online survey among 2,409 U.S. adult 18 and over in April 2021 to gather data for this annual report.
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Pro CRNA
JUNE 27, 2021
By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. follow@procrnatom on Twitter. “Leadership is the ability to get others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”. Effective leaders tend to be savvy resources managers and recognize that their workers are the most valuable resource that they manage. The health of each team member is directly tied to morale, productivity, and retention, all indicators of effective leadership.
CiscoHealth
JUNE 2, 2021
Established in 2006, Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres is a healthcare network based in the United Arab Emirates. Comprised of four hospitals and 15 medical centres, as well as four more centres opening this year, the multicultural network provides preventive, curative, and rehabilitative healthcare globally. Utilizing its “3Es” of Medcare Enriches, Empowers, and Evolves, they promote a “caring mission with a global vision.”.
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Patient Safety
JUNE 17, 2021
Background: Acutely deteriorating patients are entitled to the best possible care, which includes early recognition and timely appropriate intervention to reduce adverse events, unnecessary admissions to intensive care, and/or cardiac arrest. Aim: To reduce the number of poor outcomes for surgical patients with a National Early Warning Score (NEWS) score ?
Life Qi
JUNE 22, 2021
In this article we’re going to be looking at the importance of quality improvement (QI) meetings and how they can be a vital tool in supporting your improvement efforts. It’s worth bearing in mind that – for the best results - a successful QI project team meeting might take a bit of time to prepare, so we’ll be drilling down into detail and looking at hints and tips on how to run great improvement meetings.
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Health Populi
JUNE 18, 2021
One in two people in the U.S. with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Gallup and West Health presented their study in a webinar earlier this week; in today’s post, I feature a few key data points that particularly resonate as I celebrate/appreciate yesterday’s U.S.
Pro CRNA
JUNE 13, 2021
By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. follow@procrnatom on Twitter. A review of the literature from the business community reveals that having and using emotional intelligence is one of the most important skills of a successful leader, both at work and in the individual’s personal life. Simply stated, emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize and control emotions in ourselves and in others.
Hospital Medicine
JUNE 24, 2021
As a healthcare leader, the tasks before you are tremendous. Think of yourself as a captain sailing your ship through murky waters. Each day of the journey, you must motivate your crew by: Influencing as a coach. Continuously improving processes and physician performance. Supporting team members through external pressures and personal struggles. Maintaining strong [.].
Health Care Leader News
JUNE 21, 2021
It’s high time GP federations are acknowledged for what they bring to the primary care table, argue Fiona Adamson and Andy Hilton from the NHS Confederation’s Primary Care Federation Network. We are emerging from the biggest health crisis of our generation, but the real challenge facing primary care has barely begun. Rocketing demand for services, a weary workforce, confused national policy, and the true impact of the pandemic on the nation’s health and well-being are yet to be determined, leadi
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Patient Safety
JUNE 17, 2021
A nonpunitive approach to safety event reporting and analysis is an important dimension of healthcare organization safety culture. A system-based safety event review process, one focused on understanding and improving the conditions in which individuals do their work, generally leads to more effective and sustainable safety solutions. On the contrary, the more typical person-based approach, that blames individuals for errors, often results in unsustainable and ineffective safety solutions, but t
Healthcare Associates
JUNE 17, 2021
Why is My Hair Falling Out? Hair loss may be caused by genetics or by medical conditions, including diabetes and lupus. Certain medications and treatments may also contribute to hair loss, such as antidepressants and radiation therapy. Knowing why your hair may be falling out can help you determine whether you should seek treatment or make lifestyle changes as needed to stop or slow hair loss.
Health Populi
JUNE 1, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a whole lot of digital transformation for people staying home. For digital natives, that wasn’t such an exogenous shock. For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.
Health Care Success
JUNE 9, 2021
We know the pandemic has spawned new healthcare trends. And often, our business is in a unique position to observe and analyze these trends in real-time. With clients across the full spectrum of healthcare, we monitor how providers and other healthcare organizations are affected by COVID-19 and what they’re doing to evolve and survive. Employee wellbeing and support programs are emerging as vital healthcare trends.
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Center for Health Progress
JUNE 1, 2021
Since February, I have been working alongside our members, member leaders, and volunteers to ensure greater access to the COVID-19 vaccine in Pueblo County. Our work is focused in the communities that many people call “hard-to-reach,” but we know it’s not our fault the state’s distribution system doesn’t reach us—it’s theirs. Their system was never designed to reach us, let alone meet our health and health care needs.
Solution Reach
JUNE 3, 2021
If you’re the office manager at a plastic surgery or aesthetics practice, then you already know that surgical and nonsurgical procedures have increased since the pandemic. We talk to our customers all the time – because we love feedback – and many of our plastic surgery and aesthetic practices have told us they are “beyond busy” with patients wanting to enhance their appearance and defy the aging process.
Patient Safety
JUNE 17, 2021
Previous research has shown that patients in infectious-agent isolation are at greater risk for certain types of safety-related events. 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.
Healthcare Associates
JUNE 8, 2021
Mask Policy. Healthcare Associates of Texas still requires all staff and patients to wear a mask while in any of our clinic locations. Vaccine Availability. We have vaccines available at our Bedford, Irving (6161 State Hwy), and McKinney (8080 Texas 121) locations. Please call ahead to make a vaccine appointment. Bedford – (817)-358-5800. Irving (6161 State Hwy) – (972) 258-7499.
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Health Populi
JUNE 28, 2021
Some of America’s least-healthy communities are also those that index greater for vaccine hesitancy and other risks for well-being, found in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Healthiest Communities Rankings. U.S. News collaborated with the Aetna Foundation, CVS Health’s philanthropic arm, in this fourth annual list of the top geographies for well-being in the U.S.
CDC
JUNE 25, 2021
Controlling and containing emerging antibiotic-resistant threats and protecting people requires novel and innovative approaches. The human microbiome is a promising area of research for these efforts. Infectious disease experts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID) featuring 16 review articles on innovative research of the human microbiome, which is th
Life Qi
JUNE 10, 2021
Coaching improvement project teams can be a really rewarding process. In your role as a Quality Improvement (QI) coach you can help spread the QI message across your organisation and enable your teams to create transformational change. As a QI coach, you will have been chosen for certain attributes and for having a knowledge and passion for QI methodology.
Hospital Medicine
JUNE 21, 2021
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month is currently celebrated in June each year to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, a turning point for LGBTQ+ rights activism in the United States. The LGBTQ+ community is comprised of over 11 million Americans, or 4.5% of the U.S. population with all ages, races, [.]. The post Providing Inclusive Care for Vulnerable Populations In Conjunction With LGBTQ+ Pride Month appeared first on The Hospital Leader - The Official
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
Patient Safety
JUNE 17, 2021
This study aimed to assess the utility of a single survey item to predict the impact of burnout on safety and quality of healthcare providers as perceived by their colleagues. The primary objective is to determine if the item predicts the frequency of patient safety event reports within certain clinical departments. The secondary objective will be to determine if there is an acceptable cutoff score for the item which predicts low versus high numbers of safety events reported by healthcare provid
Healthcare Associates
JUNE 10, 2021
How to Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis. Living with rheumatoid arthritis can be extremely difficult due to the way this chronic autoimmune condition causes severe joint pain. Rheumatoid arthritis can interfere with your ability to perform everyday tasks and may lead to deformity when left unaddressed. Seeking treatment for rheumatoid arthritis can help you experience relief from your symptoms and improve your quality of life.
Health Populi
JUNE 8, 2021
In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. increased by a relatively low 6.0% in 2020. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. What’s “behind these numbers” are factors that will increase medical spending (the “inflators” in PwC speak) and the “deflators” that lower costs.
Advanced Data Systems
JUNE 4, 2021
Healthcare providers looking to increase cash flow are right to pay close attention to their computer and software systems. That’s essential for making sure they’re using the correct tools for critical jobs. Owners and managers are aware they should know the reason for having a particular application installed and why your staff is using it.
Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend
Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.
Meditech
JUNE 15, 2021
It’s hard to believe that we are just one day away from MEDITECH’s 2021 Nurse Forum. I’m looking forward to coming together virtually with hundreds of members of our customer community who have registered to attend.
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. While numbers like these can be disheartening, it’s important to look at how your organization help providers be happier at work.
Patient Safety
JUNE 17, 2021
Introduction Blood transfusions are lifesaving treatments which require critical attention to processes and details. If processes are not followed, grievous errors can lead to sentinel events. A review of investigations completed due to reported events will show the error trends associated with systems used throughout the blood transfusion process. Methods This study employed root cause analyses (RCAs) within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to review the events leading to blood transfus
American College of Healthcare Sciences
JUNE 17, 2021
How do you celebrate your graduation when instead of walking across the stage, you are taking part in a virtual ceremony? Even if you are not able to have an in-person ceremony this year, there are still lots of ways for you to celebrate your hard work! . 1. Make sure to sign up for your virtual graduation ceremony. You don’t want to miss your virtual ceremony, so make sure you are signed up!
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