Turn Your Physicians Into Leaders
A good physician leader tries to make outcomes better for patients and families as well as for their colleagues who work with them in health systems and hospitals. Effective physician leaders also are adept at goal setting in critical areas such as safety, quality, and patient experience.
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2025 Resources
Patient Safety Awareness Week is coming to a close, but the focus on patient safety and healthcare quality will continue on as always. Here is a list of the content we ran this week.
PSQH Quick Poll 2025: Taking the Pulse of Patient Safety
As part of PSQH’s celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we decided to reach out to our readers with a few questions to find out the state of patient safety efforts in 2025. This PSQH Quick Poll is presented in partnership with IAC, Inovalon, and Origami Risk.
5 Tips for Building and Managing Effective Care Teams
With workforce shortages in the inpatient and outpatient settings across the country, building and managing care teams has become a critical issue for health systems and hospitals. One of the top challenges has been integrating an increasing number of advanced practice providers into care teams.
Advancing Healthcare Risk Management: The Integrated Approach of Advocate Health
By Origami Risk In the dynamic landscape of healthcare, the notion of risk management extends far beyond the traditional realms of patient safety. With the emergence of interconnected risks such as cyber threats, supply chain disruptions, and evolving reimbursement models, healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges in ensuring consistent patient safety and delivering quality care without … Continued
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 125 – Meeting the Latest Public Health Challenges
On episode 125 of PSQH: The Podcast, Marge McFarlane, principal, Superior Performance Consultants LLC, talks about how healthcare organizations are dealing with increased respiratory disease numbers and other public health challenges. This episode is sponsored by IAC, Inovalon, and Origami Risk as part of Patient Safety Awareness Week.
The Future of Patient Safety: How Technology, Data, and Culture Are Transforming Care
By Inovalon A conversation with Karen Biesack, RHIA, CPHQ, CPPS, Senior Application Support Analyst, Safety & Quality at Inovalon How is technology shaping the future of patient safety, and what innovations excite you the most? Clinical surveillance is transforming patient safety by moving healthcare from a reactive model to a proactive, real-time risk mitigation approach. … Continued
Experts Share Winning Strategies for Care Team Management
The physician shortage in many specialties is particularly challenging for care teams. Health systems and hospitals have risen to this challenge by employing more advanced practice providers to maintain care access and lighten the load on physicians.
Honoring Facilities’ Commitment to Quality and Safe Cardiovascular Care
By Tamara Sloper IAC accreditation provides facilities with a method for demonstrating their commitment to providing quality patient care for diagnostic testing, interventional and therapeutic procedures. Across a wide range of settings from private offices and outpatient imaging centers to community hospitals and large medical systems, facilities achieve and maintain IAC accreditation to ensure that … Continued
Improving the Call Center Interaction Experience for Patients
It’s a common thread in modern medicine: patients struggle to get care they need in a timely manner because they can’t reach their physicians. As we look for ways to improve communication between patient and provider, is there room for automation to pave the path between the two?