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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. The Patient Safety Leadership Association is expected to play a key role in furthering the action plan set forth at the Mid-Year Event. “I believe in persistence.

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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations

HIT Consultant

In an environment where tools are available to bring multiple teams together collaboratively, the QI department might work with the nursing and patient safety teams to sift through published literature and rapidly identify promising process improvements that would drive CAUTI rates down. Eliminating the silo effect.

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In Situ Team-Based Simulation Training to Close the Loop on Event Reporting

Patient Safety

Without measurement, it is challenging to leverage adverse events as catalysts for targeted process improvement. However, reporting of events offers an invaluable opportunity to identify latent systems issues and review and redesign error-trapping procedures and workflows.

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Top Women in Healthcare Staffing 2022

CHQ Healthcare

Most impressively, Holli always follows Sentara’s values of people, quality, patient safety, service and integrity. She is a change champion at Parkview and works with key stakeholders from the service lines to the C-suite to drive process improvements that have led to greater efficiencies.

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HHCN Franchise Forum: The Financial Benefits of Investing in Quality and Safety

Home Health Care

We asked for cost savings through risk reduction and lawsuit mitigation, as well as operational efficiencies, such as standardizing processes and addressing risks to patients and staff. Another area that we did ask them for was if there was a reduction in staff turnover, and possibly having a monetary evaluation with that.

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8-Step Strategy to Prevent EHR-Driven Physician Burnout

HIT Consultant

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director of EHR Consultancy MediConfig These days, technology plays a vital role in improving the quality of life, impacting various sectors, including healthcare. They can also collaborate and communicate with their peers and patients efficiently and securely using EHR.

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Clinical Trial Data Strategy: Shifting to Innovative Data Collection and Flow While Reducing Burden On Your Sites

HIT Consultant

To ensure data insights are appropriately leveraged to inform decisions with patient safety and data quality in mind, sponsors and clinical research organization partners must define the data strategy before protocol design.