It Takes a Community to Support a Pregnancy
The United States spends 17.8% of its GDP on healthcare, nearly twice as much as the average OECD country. Yet despite this spending, we currently have a healthcare system largely designed to attend to clinical variables, which, according to some studies, impact only 20% of county-level variation in health outcomes, while social determinants of health (SDOH) affect as much as 50%.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 97 – The Benefits of Robotic Surgical Systems
On episode 97 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Maria Iliakova, bariatric and general surgeon, talks about the benefits of robotic surgical systems.
A New Option to the Crowded ED: Concierge Care
Concierge care programs designed specifically for urgent and emergency care are finding support from consumers who don’t want to wait several hours in an ED, along with primary care providers who don’t want to send their patients there. The service offers a cash-only alternative to the ED and could pull more patients away from hospitals and health systems.
Why are Care Teams Essential to Your Health System or Hospital?
In a recent position paper, the American College of Physicians stressed the importance of physician-led care teams. Team-based care models have been linked to good patient health outcomes and better healthcare-professional collaboration.
Stroke Management with Teleneurology
The number of neurologists already doesn’t cover the demand for their services, and they are also distributed unevenly, creating so-called “neurological deserts” where patients don’t have access to quality neurological care.
Simple Visuals Enable Improved Vitals Monitoring
Since monitoring vital signs was first digitized in the 1970s, a lot has changed. The population has evolved, people live longer, therapies have vastly increased, and so the amount of information that can be made available about an individual patient has also increased.
Amazon Takes on Health Systems with New Care Management Program
Health Condition Programs, which was unveiled on January 8 during the JP Morgan Conference, gives the online retail giant a significant platform in the healthcare space—and another reason for healthcare executives to fret about competition from disruptors. The service gives consumers a virtual link to a personalized care team to help manage their health.
Can AI Help Monitor Chemotherapy Side Effects?
The program works by creating a risk score for non-leukemia chemotherapy patients over 18 years old. As the program learns, it’s able to predict how likely it is that a patient who is experiencing symptoms will be hospitalized within 30 days after their chemotherapy treatment.
Diving Into 2024: Challenges and Trends in Nursing
To get a glimpse at what to expect in nursing this year, HealthLeaders sat down with Lisa Dolan, CNO at Ardent Health Services, to discuss what she thinks are the top five biggest challenges facing CNOs, and the impacts of new technologies and virtual nursing.
Augmented Reality Makes a Difference in TKA
The intent is to enable surgeons to make quick assessments and micro-adjustments to their surgical plan, removing the need for the imprecision of traditional instrumentation with more control than robotics.