Instead of pushing harder on hospice providers to find more ways to deliver comprehensive bereavement care with less, it’s key to address the systemic forces hampering their ability to deliver quality care at the scale required and address these challenges.
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and a growing interest in at-home care, DispatchHealth has published new data showing that its hospital-at-home program did not result in unexpected deaths, serious adverse events or patients being subsequently admitted to a skilled nursing facility.
AI-native tax firm Gelt combines top human tax experts with AI to help physicians and healthcare practices use data-driven tax strategies to lower liabilities, improve profitability, and future-proof their finances.
Sung Choi, a researcher at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, says over 2,100 patient deaths annually are related to data breaches at hospitals. The finding relied on data from CMS and HHS.
The guide is being rolled out at Mass. General, Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas, Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts, the University of Pennsylvania and hospitals in 34 foreign countries, said Dr. Rachelle Bernacki of the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs.
People die for different reasons these days than they did a century and change ago, and the biggest gamechanger: Smoking. In days of yore, things like pneumonia and cholera were top causes for passing – these days, the downstream effects from a sedentary lifestyle is a major reason. The Cleveland Clinic put together the following […]
The National Health Service in England has come out with a very cool infographic that helps explain risk to patients. The NHS Atlas of Risk puts conditions or situations into perspective – comparing the likelihood to die from murder to, say, a lack of sufficient fruits and vegetables in one’s diet. As far as risk analysis runs […]
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
“You only live once” — “YOLO” for short — leaves most people thinking about how to spend our time living. What about the other end, though? For 2014, Britain’s fifth annual Dying Matters Awareness Week is following the motto, “You only die once,” or “YODO” for short. The “Before I Die Festival” in Yorkshire is featuring […]