Use Quick Wins to Speed Your Healthcare Digital Transformation
This “digital transformation” has the potential to improve an organization’s efficiency, performance, and care quality. Fulfilling that potential, however, is challenging for several reasons, such as misaligned digital strategies, security and privacy issues, embedded legacy systems, existing processes impacting agility, implementation delays, and lack of internal collaboration.
Healthcare 2023: A Pressing Need to Move From Reactive to Proactive
We deserve a healthcare system that does more than fix us when we’re sick. Our daily living—the actions we take regarding nutrition, fitness, sleep, mental health, relationships, and financial management, and how social determinants impact these actions—is the biggest factor in our health and total well-being. Yet, our healthcare system primarily treats sickness rather than working to prevent it in the first place.
Improved Integration: Core to 2023 Successes
Now that 2022 has drawn to a close, it’s a good time to take stock and figure out what is on the horizon for 2023. Supply chain pressures, workforce shortages, and more have presented the healthcare industry with many challenges to overcome, and other financial and labor-related pressures continue to mount.
AAAHC Analysis Finds Increased Citations For Infection Prevention, Safety
The report analyzes accredited organization compliance ratings based on onsite surveys conducted from January 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. Organizations surveyed include ambulatory surgery centers (ASC), Medicare Deemed Status ASCs, office-based surgery practices, and primary care settings.
Emergency Department Length of Stay for Children with Mental Health Conditions Spikes
The new study, which was published by the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, is based on data collected from January 2020 to December 2021 at 107 emergency departments in 29 states.
ABQAURP News: November 2022
ABQAURP is now accepting applications for the 2023 CHCQM Diplomate Achievement Award. To recognize the achievements of our extraordinary Diplomates, ABQAURP presents the CHCQM Diplomate Achievement Award bi-annually in conjunction with our Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference.
IHI Forum: Berwick Says ‘One of the Problems in Healthcare is Greed’
The focus on profits in U.S. healthcare is “damaging,” Institute for Healthcare Improvement President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Donald Berwick, MD, said during this week’s IHI Forum in Orlando, Florida. U.S. health systems, hospitals, and physician practices are committed to addressing the health needs of their patients. But making sure bottom lines are in the black and securing return on investment are also top goals at these healthcare organizations.
Hospital Amoxicillin Supply Not Keeping Up With Surging Demand
Data from Vizient, a healthcare consultancy with supply chain services, showed a 43% surge in demand for amoxicillin products in the acute care setting from September to October 2022. In that same period, fill rates dropped by 25%. This data comes from purchases by Vizient members, which encompass more than 60% of the nation’s healthcare organizations.
Can Ready-to-Administer Syringes Improve Patient Care, Reduce Medical Errors, and Support a Greener Environment?
As a replacement for the error-prone bedside act of drawing up medication from a glass vial, RTA syringe technology provides a prefilled polymer syringe that has a color-coded plunger, is prelabeled, and boasts an impressive shelf life. The time savings in providing busy clinicians with equipment requiring no preparation is self-evident.
Improving Patient Experience and Disparate Tech
Healthcare organizations and providers have made significant investments toward patient-oriented care in recent years. But with the adoption of many new technologies comes unintended results. While integrating patient engagement capabilities was a high priority for 55% of survey participants, 84% did not think any existing platform could easily achieve this.