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How Hospitals Can Overcome the Challenges of Diabetes Management

HIT Consultant

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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How Clinical Decision Support Can Help Alleviate Provider Burnout

HIT Consultant

A digital solution should also offer personalized integration with ongoing support, feature enhancements and updates. Clinical Dosing Decision Support: FDA-cleared dosing calculators can improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden on providers who often resort to manual, time-intensive calculations prone to medication errors.

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UConn Health squares away CMS audit trail and more with digital health platform

Healthcare It News

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE UConn Health went live on the platform in early August 2023, and it is in active use by patients and more than 60 MSK surgeons, care team members and clinical practice leaders for spine, arthroplasty, sports and foot/ankle care. "We will follow these trends as more data is gathered over time.

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Impacting Outcomes in the Hospitalized Oncology Patient: Evidence-Informed Quality and Safety Project to Implement Routine Screening for Delirium

Patient Safety

The purpose of this evidence-based quality improvement project was to implement routine screening for delirium with a consistent instrument and adopt an interprofessional plan of care for delirium. Methods: This project was identified as an interprofessional improvement initiative.

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Behavioral Health System Modernization along the Continuum

NASHP

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community. States have a range of tools and policy levers at their disposal to build capacity for integrated behavioral health approaches.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

” Joe Kiani, Founder Patient Safety Movement Foundation Letter from CEO In many parts of the world, February is the month for celebrating love. Approximately 25% of patients experience an adverse event in US hospitals, with over 40% caused by preventable errors. “I believe in persistence.