Is Healthcare on the Right Path to Transformation?
The litany of pain points within healthcare is long, from workforce shortages to soaring costs to ineffective outcomes. To address those issues, healthcare executives are looking at new technology like AI and virtual care. Some are looking for small, incremental gains, while others say the entire care delivery system has to change.
RWJBarnabas Initiatives Reduce Hospital Mortality Rate by 20%
Several initiatives at RWJBarnabas Health over the past two years have led to a significant reduction in the hospital mortality rate. Coming out of the coronavirus pandemic, leadership at the West Orange, N.J.-based health system realized there was room to improve the mortality rate at their 12 acute care hospitals.
Share Your Insight on Healthcare Risk Management
PSQH is conducting a brief survey that examines pressing issues in healthcare risk management.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 104 – Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Healthcare Quality and Safety
On episode 104 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Komal Bajaj, Medical Director of Sustainability at NYC Health + Hospitals and Chief Quality Officer at Jacobi and North Central Bronx Hospitals, talks about integrating environmental sustainability into healthcare quality and safety.
Providing Personalized Care at Scale Through Automation
How care teams work has never been a one-size-fits-all concept and with the growing complexity of healthcare, changes in the workforce, and the evolution of patient needs, there is an opportunity for healthcare organizations to adapt their models to enable teams to personalize care for every patient at scale.
Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grades Show Improvement in Patient Experience and Infection Prevention
Hospitals are seeing improvements in patient experience and a decrease in preventable healthcare-associated infections (HAI), according to The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2024 Hospital Safety Grades.
Automate Vital Sign Collection to Improve Outcomes and Combat Burnout
Vital signs are critical indicators of a patient’s condition in the inpatient setting. Manual collection of vital signs is conducted about four times per day, which is often insufficient to determine whether a patient is decompensating, says F.J. Campbell, MD, chief medical officer of Ardent Health.
How to Design an SDOH Tool That Clinicians Will Actually Use
Researchers at The Mayo Clinic in Arizona are developing an AI tool within the EHR that will help clinicians identify and address social determinants of health—including when their own actions contribute to clinical bias.
Yale New Haven Health CCO Recommitted to Patient Safety and Care Quality
In the area of care quality, the health system has launched an initiative called Care Signature. The foundation of Care Signature is that patients should have the expectation that no matter where they go in the health system, they are given the same care based on their clinical condition.
ABQAURP News February 2024
In 2023, the National Transitions of Care Coalition’s (NTOCC) Transitions of Care (TOC) Pharmacy Advisory Committee and its Sub-Committee on Value-Based Care & Outcomes created and sent out the NTOCC Transitions of Care Pharmacy Outcomes Survey to the NTOCC Community and their social media followers, including some ABQAURP members.