patient safety

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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.

By Katie Adams

Hospitals

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.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers

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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.

By Lauren Spiller

MedCity Influencers

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.

By Naveen Kathuria

MedCity Influencers

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.

By Vanessa Rissetto

MedCity Influencers

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.

By Tim Babineau

Hospitals, Health Tech Providers,

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.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers

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

By Dr. Sean Kelly

MedCity Influencers

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.

By Rebecca Cady and Tim McDonald

MedCity Influencers

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.

By Jeff Surges

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.

By David Cohen, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Greenway Health

MedCity Influencers

Reining In the Wild West of AI

In healthcare, a faulty algorithm can be a matter of life and death.

By Paul Roscoe

MedCity Influencers

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.

By Erez Kaminski

MedCity Influencers

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.

By Jeff Surges

Health Tech

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.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers

Some of Your Doctors’ Best Qualities are the Same Ones Stifling Your Healthcare Experience

Although problems in US healthcare abound, the most insidious challenges are often tightly coupled with the industry’s most appealing and instilled virtues — a highly selective and independent workforce, (b) an extremely low tolerance for risk, and (c) a high degree of professional oversight.

By Aasim Saeed