Healthcare Leadership Strategies to Prevent Workplace Violence
Workers deserve environments that protect their well-being, and patients deserve care from professionals who aren’t operating in fear.
How Can LLMs Be Deployed Safely in Healthcare?
Healthcare technology experts have confidence that the industry will put the right guardrails up around LLMs as it continues to develop and deploy these AI tools, they said Sunday during a panel discussion at Engage at HLTH.
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RCM Outsourcing: Balancing Human Expertise & Smart Technology
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
Experts Release New Framework to Evaluate Digital Health Products
A group of healthcare researchers and health system leaders recently proposed a new framework to evaluate evidence for digital health products. The framework seeks to provide hospitals, payers and trade organizations with a clear set of steps they can use to determine whether or not a digital health product is evidence-based and therefore suitable for their company to adopt.
A whopping majority of surveyed workers at HCA say staffing shortage is “compromising patient care”
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.
Surgical stapler misuse tops list of health technology hazards
Misuse of surgical staplers led the ECRI Institute's Top 10 Technology Hazards report for 2020. Earlier this year, the FDA revealed 11,181 serious injuries related to stapler incidents had been reported in the last decade.
How organizations should fuse health IT safety and patient safety
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.
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Discover the Most Effective Aquatic Therapy Programs in Chicago Suburbs
Incorporating aquatic therapy can enhance patient outcomes and shorten recovery times for health care professionals. In the Chicago suburbs, the demand for such programs is rising.
Some dangerous hospitals fess up, others deflect blame
This week, Consumer Reports called out "12 hospitals you might want to avoid," and named names.
‘Gag clauses’ in EHR contracts said to bar safety reports
Physicians, hospitals and healthcare systems often are contractually barred from reporting on software glitches and other shortfalls in their EHRs that could lead to harmful or fatal medical errors, according to a newly published investigation.
Blame Canada
First, a disclosure. I am Canadian. Well, I’m actually a dual U.S. – Canadian citizen. I was born in Toronto to a U.S. parent and lived there until my family moved to California when I was 15. Among other things, that means that I have two passports and that my kids are also dual citizens. […]