Why Staff Safety is the Foundation of Clinical Excellence
When healthcare staff feel unsafe, they are more likely to feel overwhelmed and distracted, increasing their risk of error. This directly links provider safety to patient safety.
Quality Isn’t Just a Checkbox — Can Better Workforce Skills Drive Lower Costs?
Healthcare quality isn’t improving at scale, despite advances in technology, because many systems treat it as another compliance task rather than a priority. Stephanie Mercado, CEO of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ), argued that investing in workforce skills and standardizing roles can drive safer, higher-quality care while delivering measurable cost savings — as shown by successes at the VA, Kaiser Permanente and Christus Health.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Another Major Strike at Kaiser Permanente: What’s at Stake This Time
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers in California and Hawaii have gone on strike, demanding safer staffing levels and higher pay. The dispute underscores growing tensions in healthcare labor as unions raise concerns about patient safety, ongoing burnout and ever-increasing pay for executives.
Where The AI Action Plan Falls Short On Healthcare Trust
There are aspects of the plan worth praising, but these benefits are overshadowed by three key concerns that will disproportionately impact vulnerable populations if the plan is implemented as written.
I Trusted A Popular Supplement — It Shut Down My Liver
Here's why we need stricter oversight, independent third-party testing, more rigorous research and a cultural shift in how we think about ‘natural’ remedies.
The Digital Supplement Mess: Are We Sacrificing Patient Safety for Clickthrough Rates?
Healthcare CEOs and founders, it's time to step up. We need greater oversight and transparency in the digital supplement space to protect consumers from harm.
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
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.
3 Things Hospitals Must Remember to Drive Better Quality & Safety
To improve patient outcomes, hospitals must enable collaboration across disciplines, engage frontline staff in decision making, and make changes based on patient feedback, according to a panel of health system executives.
Stronger Cybersecurity in Healthcare Starts with Smart Policy
Leaders across healthcare, technology, and policy circles agree that cybersecurity isn't just a technical necessity — it's foundational to patient safety
Patient Safety Structural Measure Marks Progress Towards Safer and Compassionate Care
CMS recently finalized the Patient Safety Structural Measure, which sets forth a broad roadmap for the implementation of a culture of safety, learning, transparency and accountability within hospitals and health systems nationwide — enabling and encouraging significant progress towards safer care and improved support for healthcare workers.
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Survey on the Healthcare Financial Landscape Offers a Roadmap for Stakeholders
Zelis highlights how employers, payers, and consumers are integrating digital tools to manage healthcare costs.
Patients Everywhere Deserve Safer Care – Here’s How We Get There
Healthcare organizations tend to view issues in pockets – how they are impacting their specific organization and region – but patient safety is a collective mission. No matter what hospital or health system they are in, or which care model they belong to, patients everywhere deserve safer care.
Reining In the Wild West of AI
In healthcare, a faulty algorithm can be a matter of life and death.
From Recalls to Reliability: Tools to Ensure Software Safety in MedTech
Cutting-edge technology empowers developers to proactively detect and mitigate issues before they cause problems, reducing recalls and fostering trust in the industry.
Driving Safer Care for All with Connected Healthcare Operations
Addressing preventable harm starts with breaking down the data silos that exist within the healthcare landscape and pulling disparate systems together through connected healthcare operations.
Private Equity Ownership Leads to Worse Patient Outcomes at Hospitals, Study Shows
Yet another study has been published showing that patients receiving care at PE-owned hospitals experienced a higher rate of hospital-acquired adverse events, like infections and falls, than patients receiving care at hospitals that are not PE-owned. The research comes as concerns about PE-owned hospitals are intensifying — from leaders both within and outside of the healthcare industry.