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Newsletter, June 2023

Patient Safety Movement

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Commonwealth Fund, the United States has the highest maternal death rate of any developed nation, and Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.

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Roundup: Sheba Medical Center launches remote monitoring program, ORCHA creates digital health academy and more

Healthcare It News

The program will use remote monitoring technology provided by Datos Health , a member of Sheba’s Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate (ARC) telemedicine hub. ” Digital transformation in community health services needs backing, says report. ” Dublin teaching hospital upgrades pathology system.

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State Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Behavioral Health Workforce

NASHP

The state plan also identifies the use of a curricular tool – Ka La Hiki Ola (Dawning of a New Day) to provide culturally relevant job readiness and employment prep that integrates the socio-political context of Native Hawaiian history and culture as a framework for learning job skills. Align across state agencies and branches.

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Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?

HIT Consultant

We asked 22 healthcare and health sciences leaders for their thoughts; here’s what they said. Critical care workers are all human. These teams are meant to focus on patients and care delivery, yet historically, the technologies and processes forced on them did not address holistic workflows.

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Newsletter, December 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Your donations, large and small, are vital to enabling us to bring family stories of preventable medical harm to the website and to inform politicians who can pass legislation that makes healthcare safer through preventive measures. We feel an immense sense of gratitude for you. million new HIV infections in 2022.

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Newsletter, January 2024

Patient Safety Movement

In medicine, thousands of patients sustain preventable harm, and yet we do not know the actual number, as very little is reported. If this data were made available, with the aid of AI technology reviewing medical records, would we have the same response as in the airline industry to prevent the same errors from occurring again and again?

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

Approximately 25% of patients experience an adverse event in US hospitals, with over 40% caused by preventable errors. Many automobiles have monitors that help the driver avoid swerving out of their lane or reversing into a wall or tell them to hit the breaks to prevent a collision. Why is this so important?