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Cybersecurity for the Clinician

Briggs Healthcare

Against this backdrop, security executives in hospital systems are challenged to keep their clinicians aware and trained about cybersecurity risks in their day-to-day environment. But most health systems do not have enough resources dedicated to cybersecurity, including proper training of clinical staff.

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Newsletter, July 2023

Patient Safety Movement

Hospital-acquired infections, misdiagnoses, medication errors—these are process errors and have been significantly reduced by some healthcare systems. He brought it home to us by stating that we are 2 million times safer sitting in an airliner seat than lying in a hospital bed! How did airlines become so safe? Michael A.E.

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To Follow or Not: The Rules About Patient Safety

Susan E. Mazer, Ph.D

One, attributed to the Hippocratic Oath is “Do no harm” as a dictum for medical practice. Another, from Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Hospitals states, “The Hospital shall do the sick no harm.” And, communicable diseases identified at the hospital should stay in the hospital.

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State Strategies to Support the Future of the Primary Care Physician and Nursing Workforce

NASHP

UC San Diego’s school of medicine established the Healer Education Assessment and Referral Program to address the high levels of burnout, stress, and depression in the health care profession by educating medical students, faculty, and hospital staff about risk factors and offering confidential assessments of stress and depression.