A survey by the Service Employees International Union found that 89% of polled nurses and healthcare workers at HCA Healthcare feel staff shortages at their hospital are hurting patients. Union leaders urged hospital leaders to urgently address the shortage.
In an interview with MedCity News, Hospital Sisters Health System's Director of Quality Bill Cox discussed the types of technology the 15-hospital system is using to enhance patient safety and why a systemwide strategy and culture shift is necessary for successful IT deployment.
When it comes to managing inbound phone calls, underperformance has devastating cost implications.
The state of California is suing Brookdale Senior Living for alleged patient safety violations at 10 nursing homes in the state and for providing false data to boost its CMS star rating. Brookdale denies both claims.
Improving patient safety and increasing the bottom line aren’t competing priorities. Here’s how hospitals can accomplish both objectives.
A recent Pennsylvania appellate court opinion related to the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (“PSQIA”) continues a trend of judicial erosion of patient safety privilege protections afforded to health care providers by statute.
Notwithstanding their entrance into the healthcare world and lexicon 15 years ago, Patient Safety Organizations continue to represent a source of uncertainty, confusion and frustration with respect to their promise of sweeping confidentiality protection for provider efforts to analyze system errors.
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
Code rot is the slow deterioration of software performance over time or its diminishing responsiveness that will eventually lead to software becoming faulty, unusable, or in need of an upgrade.
Back in 2009, healthcare experts, including mainly members of the American Medical Informatics Association, envisioned creating a national databank to track reports of deaths, injuries and near misses linked to issues with the move to have computerized medical records but it never happened.
A report from ECRI Institute outlined the 10 biggest patient safety concerns, and diagnostic errors and improper management of test results in EHRs topped the list.
The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety has unveiled a report that highlights a three-pronged approach for how organizations can make health IT safety a part of their overall safety initiatives.
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
According to a Frost & Sullivan analysis, adverse patient safety events cost the U.S. and European healthcare systems $317.93 billion in 2016. By 2022, the analysis estimates that amount will rise to $383.7 billion.
Clinical trial sponsors must choose technology that not only reduces the burden on trial sites but also provide more complete data on the temperature conditions that an investigational medicinal product has been exposed to.
Last week, Medicare lowered a year's worth of payments to 751 hospitals to penalize them for having the highest rates of patient injuries.
Saint Anthony’s complaint appears to be the first time a hospital has sued a rating agency over a contested grade.
A recent survey from Dimensional Insight takes a closer look at the data governance initiatives that hospitals around the United States are implementing, as well as the challenges they face.