Patient Safety Movement

MARCH 27, 2023

Patient safety has been top-of-mind for me for decades. When I learned of the startling statistics surrounding patient deaths in hospital settings, I knew a change in patient care was imperative. It was such an honor to meet and speak with so many leaders and ministers of health who are dedicated to patient safety.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 3, 2024

If a hospital sees a high rate of readmissions for patients with a certain procedure, it’s important to look at why that’s happening so that it can be addressed rather than allowed to recur. Readmits are bad for patients and hospitals, driving up costs and exposing each to unnecessary risk. This is a priority of HROs.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What You Should Know: – Hippocratic AI , a company developing a safety-focused Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, announced the launch of its Nurse Advisory Council. Hippocratic AI aims to address this by developing an LLM that supports nurses and allows them to focus on high-impact patient care.

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Hospital Medicine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When RaDonda Vaught, a registered nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was criminally prosecuted for a medication error, it sent shockwaves through the medical community.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” health system. health system.

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2022

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognizing the work already being done.

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Health Populi

MARCH 14, 2023

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. Topping the 2023 list of patient safety concerns is the pediatric mental health crisis.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Glytec The modern-day hospital is grappling with an alarming trend. Hospitals and health systems have long understood the need to reduce preventable hypoglycemia, yet despite a renewed sense of urgency, many of them lack comprehensive glycemic management measures that can drive success.

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Patient Safety Movement

JUNE 1, 2023

On the first day of the Summit, global patient safety leaders call for increased urgency in reducing preventable deaths. Michael Ramsay, chief executive officer of the PSMF, reflected on the role that the increasing availability of hospital data on medical errors could play in reducing harm. Irvine, Calif.,

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Briggs Healthcare

MARCH 9, 2022

Even before the pandemic, hospital IPC programs were underfunded and understaffed. The pandemic exacerbated those patient safety weaknesses, leaving healthcare facilities with insufficient capacity to prevent common, often deadly, healthcare-associated infections. For the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 8, 2024

What You Should Know: – Press Ganey , a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ( NDNQI ). What is the NDNQI?

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Patient Safety

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Executive Director’s Choice Award: Fall prevention is an important initiative for every hospital unit in providing excellent care. Recently, the nursing team on 3 South at Fox Chase Cancer Center reached the significant milestone of one full year—365 consecutive days—with no patient falls on their unit.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide. About 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic, with over 600,000 reporting their intention to leave by 2027, citing stress and burnout as primary reasons.

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Patient Safety

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Background: Inadequate hand-off communication from hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) hinders SNF nurses’ ability to prepare for specific patient needs, including prescriptions for critical medications, such as controlled medications and intravenous (IV) antibiotics, resulting in delayed medication administration.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With the experience gained and quality outcomes demonstrated, the health system decided to take a similar approach in lower-acuity care settings that still required direct, continuous observation of at-risk patients. "The carts were immediately deployed in every COVID surge unit and our field hospital." " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

The initial focus was on specific groups such as healthcare workers outside of hospital systems and educators, but expanded later to the general public – with an emphasis on those facing barriers to care. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. "Those things don’t go away!"

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. Far too many of our SNFs have become the worst place to be either as a patient/resident or an employee. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. million to 1.35

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Integrated healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals is now rolling out its connected care programme across its entire network in India. This follows the recent nationwide expansion of a similar programme for its partner hospitals, aiming to build the largest connected healthcare ecosystem in the country.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Pat Linton, the founding CEO of North Hawaii Community Hospital, categorically stated that “The only difference between the patient and the caregiver is acuity.” Well, it means that whoever is standing next to the hospital bed could easily be in the bed in short order. Patient safety is directly linked to nurse burnout.

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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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Medi Leadership

MAY 16, 2022

Chances are your organization is struggling to fill nurse vacancies today, and nurses under your roof are struggling with burnout. Earlier this spring, a letter from the American Hospital Association to Congress reported two-thirds of hospitals have a nurse vacancy rate of 7.5% Investing in individual development.

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Briggs Healthcare

JULY 17, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted QSO-23-19-Hospitals this morning (July 17, 2023). Medicare-certified hospitals have a regulatory obligation to care for patients in a safe setting under the Medicare Hospital Conditions of Participation at §482.13(c)(2).

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 29, 2023

What You Should Know: – HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud today announced a new collaboration designed to use generative AI technology to improve workflows on time-consuming tasks such as clinical documentation, so physicians and nurses can focus more on patient care.

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Readiness Rounds

AUGUST 28, 2023

How Patient Satisfaction (HCAHPS) is Impacted by the Hospital’s Physical Environment Patient satisfaction and HCAHPS improvements go far beyond medical expertise or outcome. The hospital environment plays a pivotal role in shaping a patient's (and visitors) experience and overall satisfaction.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2023

What You Should Know: CareRev , a technology platform reimagining healthcare staffing by connecting hospitals and health systems with local nurses and other healthcare professionals for daily shifts, announced its expansion into Delaware with a partnership with Beebe Healthcare.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2024

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare. points, 81.8%

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2023

Mentors for the newest global healthcare workforce accelerator include the American Hospital Association, CATI, Deloitte, Intermountain Ventures and several others across the U.S. A "BedSense" App provides insights into the needs of memory care and nursing home residents. Babblevoice. Kare Mobile. Supportiv.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

MARCH 17, 2017

I have always wondered why patient safety is talked about by itself. As if all other procedures, policies, and practices are not about safety. And why should patient safety be separate from the patient experience? For staff, patient safety is a lot like playing in tune for a musician.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2023

What You Should Know: – Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch , a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic region.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 9, 2023

million front-line healthcare workers such as medical assistants, home health aides, and nursing assistants, according to a Mercer report. The Smart Care Facility Platform will also assist in creating discharge summaries, call summaries, recommend templates and other content for nurses, admissions, and discharge staff.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

JUNE 17, 2016

For four hours, we were asked questions that revealed that this was a medical negligence case, and something about sepsis, and something else about patient safety protocols and hernia operations. How Important Is It to Follow Patient Safety Rules? Then, the attorney asked the same question about patient safety.

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Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Note: This is a popular post from 2014 that is still relevant to the critical issue of patient safety. Florence Nightingale was not only the Mother of Modern Nursing; she also was the Mother of Healthcare Design and Patient Safety. Simply put, every decision and practice has the patient’s life at stake.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 9, 2024

Revolutionizing OR Staffing: iQueue Staff Planner Enhances Efficiency and Patient Safety Charge nurses and nurse managers have seen a significant 5-hour weekly reduction in administrative tasks thanks to iQueue Staff Planner, as discussed at LeanTaaS’ Transform Hospital Operations Summit in Chicago.

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Patient Safety Movement

APRIL 27, 2023

Join Us for the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, June 1-2, 2023 Join us in celebrating our 10th anniversary summit with world-renowned speakers and panelists discussing the latest challenges and solutions in patient safety. Nurses Day on May 6 (U.S.) Yours, Michael A.E. Bates, D.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Can you imagine a world in which technology enables physicians and nurses to spend less time in front of a computer and more time with patients? “For me, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to deliver a greenfield hospital, as well as bring the Cleveland Clinic model of care to Abu Dhabi,” he says.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

It supports patient engagement with features including telehealth, on-demand patient education, patient information, electronic meal ordering, patient communications and entertainment. In Gold Coast, five patients are currently being treated for the disease. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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