
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.
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.
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.
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
Patient safety has lost its place on the priority list. Without strong, sustained attention from those at the top, safety efforts rarely take root.
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.
Leaders across healthcare, technology, and policy circles agree that cybersecurity isn't just a technical necessity — it's foundational to patient safety
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.
Break down the silos. Take control of your provider data.
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.
In healthcare, a faulty algorithm can be a matter of life and death.
Cutting-edge technology empowers developers to proactively detect and mitigate issues before they cause problems, reducing recalls and fostering trust in the industry.
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.
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.
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.
This week, two bipartisan members of the Senate Budget Committee launched an investigation into private equity and its impact on healthcare. They initiated the probe to get answers about “questionable financial transactions” that could be hurting care quality for patients at hospitals owned by private equity firms.
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report that laid out four recommendations to improve patient safety across the nation. Some of these included creating federal leadership positions focused on advancing patient safety and hastening research on systems of safe care.
Each year, nonprofit ECRI creates a list of the industry’s top ten patient safety concerns. This year, the pediatric mental health crisis topped the list, above other important issues like violence against healthcare staff and clinicians being expected to work outside their scope of practice.