Designing Calm Spaces in Pediatric Healthcare: Supporting Safety and Emotional Wellbeing
Pediatric patients are often more sensitive to noise, lighting, and unfamiliar surroundings, making them vulnerable to stress during visits or hospital stays. Thoughtful design of calming spaces is not just about aesthetics; it supports patient safety, promotes emotional regulation, and improves the overall care experience.
How to Create a Compelling Educational Webinar
This is a comprehensive guide and checklist for creating and producing a compelling webinar that attracts the right audience, engages participants during the session, and connects with and converts them afterward—with a specific focus on solutions that reduce healthcare-associated infections, enhance patient safety, and improve clinical outcomes.
How to Actually Execute Value-Based Care
Value-based care has continued to shift from aspiration to expectation. But as it does, many organizations are facing a familiar problem: they have a vision of where they want to go, but don’t have the infrastructure to get there.
How Should Hospitals Prepare for Active Shooter Threats?
By integrating existing policies and infrastructures—such as training systems, command centers, and communication protocols—healthcare organizations can ensure consistency, efficiency, and interoperability in emergency scenarios.
How Remote Patient Monitoring Can Be a Game-Changer for Rural Health
As federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics look for effective ways to reach their underserved populations, improve outcomes, manage growing care demands, and even strengthen their financial performance, RPM offers a scalable, sustainable solution that supports both patients and providers.
Nurse-First Strategies to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Strain
With patient volumes ever on the rise and staffing shortages not going away any time soon, emergency departments and other departments and teams face relentless challenges. Areas like nurse-first triage and transfer strategies can help alleviate some of these challenges, build better operational efficiency, and open the door for more innovation.
Patients Are Stuck Waiting: Can Voice AI Pick Up the Phone?
Advances in AI and automation, such as virtual agents and self-scheduling capabilities, are already improving call center operations while giving patients more control over their healthcare—which is exactly where they want to be.
Improving Diversion Reporting Through Shared Best Practices
Through the nonprofit Healthcare Diversion Network’s website HealthcareDiversion.org, 684 diversion incidents have been reported across all 50 states, and while most incidents happen in hospitals, pharmacies have also seen an influx.
Engineering Missions: Healing the World Through Healthcare Facility Design
This article explores how engineers are changing our hurting world through their contributions to healthcare facilities design in developing countries, highlighting the technical ingenuity and cultural sensitivity required to make a lasting impact.
Smarter Indoor Air Quality is Redefining the Healthcare Environment
Tools now exist that can track and manage IAQ automatically instead of manually. New affordable sensors and AI-powered platforms can continuously monitor environmental data and adjust airflow based on real-time conditions.