As a leader who has committed much of his career to improving healthcare — an industry that holds millions of people’s lives in its hands — I took from this terrifying incident a new guiding principle. Healthcare needs to pursue a zero-failure rate.
At ViVE 2024, Tarun Kapoor — chief digital transformation officer at New Jersey-based Virtua Health — highlighted a conundrum he thinks may be the reason why AI hasn't been able to move the needle when it comes to solving the clinician shortage.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
History has shown that while healthcare is more open to adopting technology to improve outcomes, bureaucracy, ego, money, or indifference to change still tend to get in the way. Technology is not our only problem unfortunately, healthcare has so many more. In this article, I put together some statistics that show we still have a […]
Even with EHRs, notes are still written down on paper and some critical communication never happens between clinicians. To reduce medical errors, we need to keep improving our systems for collaboration.
"We’ve shown in a number of studies that every one point increase in burnout [as measured by a survey] increases the risk of a medical error in the next three months," said Dr. Tait Shanafelt, Stanford Medicine's chief wellness officer.
In an effort to reduce medical errors and potential misunderstandings, the New Jersey Innovation Institute is developing a "Master Person Index," which will serve as a master database of each New Jersey resident's health-related information.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Hospitals and health systems face multiple challenges as they transition away from fee-for-service models and toward value-based care. A new survey from EY dug deeper into this issue.
Did your hospital make the grade? The Leapfrog Group has unveiled its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade, and 823 hospitals got an A.
Programs to circumvent litigation by offering prompt disclosure, apology and compensation for mistakes as an alternative to malpractice suits are becoming more popular
“Instead of shutting down conversations with patients, we want to respond to them immediately, we want to share everything we can with them."
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
New research finds that the act of disclosure, combined with stress from the procedure gone wrong, can be an anxious experience for some doctors — and more training is needed to help them engage in these difficult conversations.
Frank Federico, a vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has plenty of thoughts on this study.
The first lesson, obviously, is to say sorry. The other is to examine whether health IT may be compromising patient safety.
As ER doctors and nurses grapple with the transition to digitalized record systems, they seem to happen more frequently.
Perhaps it's not surprising that misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis and other assessment-related issues were so prevalent in cardiology.