patient safety
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4 Steps Needed to Improve Patient Safety On a National Level, Per PCAST
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.
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Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Tops ECRI’s List of 2023 Patient Safety Concerns
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.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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How One Startup Is Working to Reduce Surgical Variability & Bring Transparency to the OR
Palo Alto-based Theator makes technology to help providers understand the high level of variability in outcomes among common surgical procedures. The startup recently uncovered a key reason why patient suffer complications after hysterectomies, and it stems from the fact that surgeons lack a standardized set of safety practices to which they must adhere.
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Report: Nurse Understaffing Is Becoming More Deadly for Patients
More than 90% of nurses in Michigan believe that understaffing is negatively affecting the quality of care they’re able to provide, according to a new report. The percentage of respondents who know of a patient death being caused by nurses being assigned too many patients nearly doubled in the past seven years — from 22% in 2016 to 42% in 2023.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How hospitals should approach quality improvement in a post-Covid-19 world
While no single approach is right for every hospital, there are a few fundamental tenets that all healthcare organizations should keep in mind as they design a quality improvement program.
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Hospitals, Consumer / Employer
Report: staffing shortages and provider’s mental health are top concerns affecting patient safety
A 2022 report by patient safety company ECRI listed the top ten risk factors to patient safety and provided actionable steps to mitigate each risk.
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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.
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How Hospital Sisters Health System is using tech to advance patient safety goals
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.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Health IT, Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Why most hospitals could save millions by improving patient safety
Improving patient safety and increasing the bottom line aren’t competing priorities. Here’s how hospitals can accomplish both objectives.
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Pennsylvania court interprets scope of Patient Safety Act privilege protections
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.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Do hospitals have an adequate patient safety system?
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.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Code Rot: Healthcare’s growing patient threat
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.
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No safety switch: How lax oversight of EHRs puts patients at risk
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.
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These are the top 10 patient safety challenges in 2019
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.