Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 15:04.
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Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 15:04.
Fierce Healthcare
MARCH 19, 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s campaign against healthcare worker burnout took a step forward this week with the release of a new instructional guide for executive-level hos | The free resource was developed alongside the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation and informed by a six-month, six-hospital pilot across CommonSpirit (..)
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Fierce Healthcare
AUGUST 23, 2021
KFF: Preventable COVID hospitalizations among unvaccinated cost U.S. health system $2.3B. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 16:01.
Health Care Dive
MAY 8, 2023
The medical associations said preventive health services are essential to increase longevity and quality of life, and that medical evidence should dictate preventive care recommendations rather than political considerations.
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Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
More than 280,000 hospitalizations from COVID-19 between June and August could have been prevented by vaccination, researchers found.
Fierce Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
KFF: System-wide costs of preventable COVID-19 hospitalizations nearly tripled to $5.7B Tue, 09/14/2021 - 11:34.
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Alexandra Hospital has taken part in the launch of a new cloud-based digital health service in Singapore by telecommunications provider StarHub, together with its partners, health technology company ConnectedLife and Fitbit. WHAT IT DOES. The LifeHub+ app delivers insights into users' health and wellness to help improve their conditions.
CDC
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Two hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are demonstrating that even when access to resources is limited, commitment to infection prevention and control (IPC) practices makes combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) possible. Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria can cause severe, hard-to-treat infections.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
After the ransomware attack at CommonSpirit, cybersecurity experts share the top ways health systems can protect valuable patient data.
Fierce Healthcare
OCTOBER 31, 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the first-ever federal campaign encouraging hospitals to track and address burnout across their workforces.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region. "Patients don't have to [travel] all the way to be hospitalised and then centralised in the hospital. " he asked.
Fierce Healthcare
DECEMBER 20, 2022
over 9 months, struggling Washington hospitals hope state legislators can help prevent more service cuts. Tue, 12/20/2022 - 14:05.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 26, 2023
Data from the new hospital-at-home platform will be accessible through Orlando Health's Epic electronic health records through a multi-year agreement with the connected health and digital therapeutics company.
Briggs Healthcare
JULY 6, 2022
Just this morning (Wednesday, July 6, 2022), CMS posted QSO-22-20-Hospitals with the same title as this blog. Infection preventions and control and antibiotic stewardship programs. Infection preventions and control and antibiotic stewardship programs. The revisions are found starting on page 3 of this 22-page Memorandum.
Health Care Dive
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Incidents of falls and trauma and of objects unintentionally left in a body after surgery decreased by about 25% since 2012, according to the group that assigns letter grades to hospitals.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 20, 2021
They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication. However, heat-related deaths are preventable, and these new technologies are a valuable contribution to public health practice. We have a registry, so we have a list of who these patients are and through GPs who have a record of all their patients they actively survey them.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Princess Alexandra Hospital offers data for medication harm research A research project from the University of Queensland School of Pharmacy has started collaborating with the Princess Alexandra Hospital to use digital technologies in reducing rehospitalisation cases due to medication harm.
Health Care Dive
JULY 5, 2022
The rural emergency hospital designation is expected to help prevent facility closures and maintain access to crucial healthcare services.
PDC Healthcare
OCTOBER 19, 2023
When a patient checks in to a hospital or a non-acute care facility, their personal and medical data needs to be recorded. Implementing a scannable barcode system enables caregivers the ability to quickly scan a ID […] The post Preventing Barcode Errors in Healthcare appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog.
Healthcare It News
MARCH 16, 2023
Online suicide prevention tool for farmers goes live A new website was launched to provide well-being support and suicide prevention resources to farmers. The Well-being Index app is one of the three health and wellbeing initiatives being implemented by Canberra Health Services to promote staff well-being and prevent burnout.
CDC
MARCH 15, 2023
Moss, to learn more about the importance of patient engagement in infection prevention. In 2004, my life changed dramatically when my mom was admitted to a hospital for lung surgery. Read the blog below, authored by Lori Nerbonne and Marie K.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. Leaders adopt emerging medtech to support short- and long-term cost-reduction and error-prevention goals. It can assist with many preventive-care measures.
Healthcare It News
JUNE 7, 2022
So how do hospitals and health systems deal with an influx of mental health patients seeking fast access to high-quality psychiatric care while improving patient throughput? Hospitals need to think of patients first and consider how value-based care will benefit them. Hospitals need help. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
In some parts of the world, such as Australia and Norway, “in-person at-home acute care has gained signification traction and has been offered in most hospitals for over 15 years,” the authors note. Hospitals are not logisticians (with apologies to the materials management folks working hard out there in health systems).
Briggs Healthcare
MAY 26, 2022
“Vaccines have proven to be spectacularly effective in preventing death from Covid-19, but the U.S. The Brown School of Public Health) Vaccine Preventable Deaths Dashboard shows that since vaccines became widely available, every second Covid-19 death could have been prevented by vaccines.”. Please read the above statement again.
CDC
AUGUST 17, 2023
The authors of this post co-led the development of the Africa CDC Legal Framework for Infection Prevention and Control. We found that many organizations were doing important work to improve infection prevention and control (IPC) to protect patients from harm.
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest safety net health system in the United States, serving more than one million patients annually, including the most vulnerable New Yorkers. In order to launch this service, NYC Health + Hospitals needed a telehealth platform that could flexibly support audio and video modalities. THE PROBLEM.
CDC
MAY 24, 2022
Updated recommendations on how to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), as well as ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events (VAEs), and non-ventilator healthcare-associated pneumonia (NV-HAP) were recently published.
Briggs Healthcare
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) is proud to announce thatWorldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to be celebrated on Thursday, November 17, 2022. The objective of Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to increase awareness about pressure injury prevention and to educate the public on this topic.
Health Populi
APRIL 25, 2023
The good news is that burns are preventable, and we learn several terrific strategies for doing so from The Family Oops and Burns First Aid. ″ square, packs a huge amount of self-care knowledge about burn prevention and treatment for home and workplace — the two sites where most burns happen, WHO attests.
Healthcare It News
AUGUST 25, 2022
Louisville-based ScionHealth system, the combined LifePoint Health and Kindred Healthcare delivery network, and Cadence, a New York-based healthcare technology company, are implementing a remote patient monitoring platform starting with 18 community hospitals in 12 states. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.
HIT Consultant
MARCH 7, 2024
This pilot program expands access to Healthy.io’s Minuteful for Wound solution to patients in the division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy department at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. This enables real-time remote monitoring by care teams, preventing severe wound deterioration and improving outcomes.
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.
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Innovation in diagnostics, however, is not just vital to advancing disease surveillance and early detection to help prevent the next pandemic. Why we need a preventive approach. The future of diagnostics, and the preventive health movement it serves, lies in harnessing the power of data. Creating a holistic picture of health.
HIT Consultant
AUGUST 21, 2023
These demographic trends are causing shifts within the healthcare sector and resulting in increased expenditure associated with the costs of treatment and prevention in old age. Both a lack of clinical engagement and inadequate resources are two often-cited areas that prevent better integration of otherwise promising digital solutions.
HIT Consultant
OCTOBER 18, 2023
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
HIT Consultant
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Diabetes prevention is one of the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry as more than 37 million Americans (11.3% That’s why we collaborated with the American Diabetes Association just this past year to launch the Amputation Prevention Alliance. Why is preventive care still so challenging today when it comes to diabetes?
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Hospital Authority has made significant achievements over the past years in digitising its processes and ways of delivering care to patients and communities. Recently, it also began working on projects that contribute to its vision of a smart hospital. However, its digital transformation journey is far from over.
Health Care Dive
AUGUST 24, 2021
Roughly 113,000 of the 185,000 inpatient stays with a COVID-19 diagnosis, or about 61%, could have been prevented by vaccination in June and July, researchers estimated.
Health Care Dive
MARCH 9, 2022
The agency will ramp up investigations at healthcare facilities that previously received pandemic-related citations or complaints to make sure they're effectively prepared and able to prevent the rise of potential variants.
Health Care Dive
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The hospital lobby argued recent guidance limiting third-party tracking technology prevents providers from sharing reliable healthcare information.
Patient Safety Movement
JULY 31, 2023
One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. The shameful reality is that it can take up to 17 years between the publication of protocols for preventing harm, and their actual implementation in the clinic.
Patient Safety Movement
JULY 31, 2023
One of the great sources of frustration for everyone working within the field of patient safety is that many of the solutions we need to prevent harm are already available. The shameful reality is that it can take up to 17 years between the publication of protocols for preventing harm, and their actual implementation in the clinic.
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