Why Leadership Is the Missing Link in Patient Safety Reform
Patient safety has lost its place on the priority list. Without strong, sustained attention from those at the top, safety efforts rarely take root.
What My Daughter’s Harrowing Alaska Airlines Flight Taught Me About Healthcare
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.
The Power of One: Redefining Healthcare with an AI-Driven Unified Platform
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
The Healthcare AI Question No One Wants to Answer
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.
25 Shocking Statistics That Keep Healthcare Executives Up at Night
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 […]
Communication breakdown: Healthcare delivery is still hindered by preventable mistakes
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.
How is Stanford Medicine’s Chief Wellness Officer seeking to reduce physician burnout? (Q&A)
"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.
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Could QuantalX’s Device Make Managing Brain Health Easier?
CEO and neuroscientist Dr. Iftach Dolev on how the new device can bring a powerful tool to psychiatrists and neurologists alike.
New Jersey seeks to prevent patient mix-ups with “Master Person Index”
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.
What are healthcare organizations’ biggest challenges this year?
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.
Leapfrog Group releases hospital grades, medical errors calculator
Did your hospital make the grade? The Leapfrog Group has unveiled its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade, and 823 hospitals got an A.
Some hospitals taking novel approach to dealing with medical errors: Apologizing
Programs to circumvent litigation by offering prompt disclosure, apology and compensation for mistakes as an alternative to malpractice suits are becoming more popular
As Healthcare and Biopharma Companies Embrace AI, Insurance Underwriters See Risks and Opportunities
In an interview, Munich Re Specialty Senior Vice President Jim Craig talked about the risk that accompanies innovation and the important role that insurers play.
Hospitals rethink ‘deny-and-defend’ approach to medical error
“Instead of shutting down conversations with patients, we want to respond to them immediately, we want to share everything we can with them."
Surgeons struggle to discuss adverse events with 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.
About that Johns Hopkins study on medical errors (podcast)
Frank Federico, a vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, has plenty of thoughts on this study.
After a medical error, start with, ‘I’m sorry,’ but also examine IT
The first lesson, obviously, is to say sorry. The other is to examine whether health IT may be compromising patient safety.
Electronic records didn’t eliminate medical errors, they just created some new ones
As ER doctors and nurses grapple with the transition to digitalized record systems, they seem to happen more frequently.