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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. Fast forward to 2023 and ECRI’s latest take on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2023.

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How To Fight Candida Auris/Fungal Infections In Hospitals

HIT Consultant

Like using preventive measures such as diet and exercise to stave off heart disease and other dangerous health conditions, healthcare has a distinct opportunity to prevent the spread of infections by addressing one of the primary root causes, improper cleaning and disinfecting. In total, fungal infections kill at least 1.6

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17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity

HIT Consultant

The solution also enables new Virtual Nursing models which provide health systems with a tool to help address clinician burnout and staffing shortages by efficiently leveraging their most experienced nurses to support bedside care teams and enable more efficient clinical workflows. Tim O’Connell, M.D.,

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ECRI Unveils Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2024

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ECRI , an independent healthcare safety organization, has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list for 2024 , highlighting critical safety concerns for healthcare providers and the medical device industry. These systems offer a range of capabilities (e.g.,

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Top 10 Health Technology Hazards in 2023 to Watch

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ECRI , the nation’s largest non-profit patient safety organization, names communications gaps with recalls of home-use medical devices as the nation’s most pressing health technology safety issue for 2023.

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Revolutionary, chaotic or stagnating? The future of digital tech in health and care in the UK

Healthcare It News

But we also know digital tools like EHRs can drive improvements in patient safety, safeguarding and medicines optimisation. Similarly data driven systems can improve population health and resource allocation , while AI can improve accuracy, reproducibility and speed of services.

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Connected Devices Selection: Considerations for A Digital-First Approach to Data Collection

HIT Consultant

In recent years, digital health technologies (DHTs) have significantly changed the way we collect data within clinical trials. For example, those in drug development rely on therapeutic experts and medical specialists to know specifically which patient safety issues we should be concerned with and how to efficiently monitor each.