The Cornerstone of Your Safety Strategy: Locating Technology
When developing your safety strategy, achieving a swift response that minimizes negative impacts to staff and patient experiences should be the targeted outcome. As clinical staff are taught to recognize when situations are becoming increasingly tense, empowering them with the right technology can make a significant difference.
CMOs Predict Widespread Artificial Intelligence Uptake in 2024
President Joe Biden recently made an executive order on AI to promote the safe, secure, and trustworthy use of the technology. While the executive order did not provide details on healthcare guidelines for AI, healthcare executives expressed cautious optimism about the government’s approach to the technology.
Digital Identity: Empowering Clinicians with Mobility and Security
In a recent survey from AMNHealthcare, about 94% of nurses reported moderate to severe staff shortages, with over 60% saying they don’t have enough time to spend with patients. Patient care is always the highest priority for nurses, above cybersecurity or even their own well-being.
Using RTLS Tech to Improve Workflows, Patient Care
At Aurora Health Care, a Milwaukee-based health system encompassing 26 hospitals and more than 600 other care sites, leadership decided to incorporate an RTLS platform into new clinic construction. With that technology in place, the health system has been able to boost patient visits and streamline provider and staff workflows so that patients spend as little time as possible waiting around.
Top Software to Help Pharmacists Fight the Flu
For pharmacies in most of Europe, Canada, and the U.S., flu outbreaks result in peak demand and a significantly increased pressure on personnel, elevating their risk of burnout. During these trying times, pharmacy software systems come to the rescue.
Are Ingestible Sensors Making a Comeback?
The study, published in Device, gives new value to a digital health form factor that has seen its share of ups and downs, but could prove valuable in remote patient monitoring programs for a wide variety of health conditions.
Can the Inbox Ninjas Close Nagging Gaps in Primary Care?
Launched in late 2022 by the Bassett Healthcare Network, the Inbox Ninjas are full-time advanced practice clinicians (APCs)–or staff with similar qualifications–hired by the health system to review email messages sent by patients to their care providers.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 92 – Ensuring Patient Safety During the Medical Device Research Process
On episode 92 of PSQH: The Podcast, Korey Johnson, managing partner at Bold Insight, talks about ensuring that medical device research is safe for patients.
Healthcare IT: Looking to 2024 and Beyond
Healthcare has always had a target on its back for cyber threats, but hackers have widened the scope of their attacks: not just looking at high-profile, high-yield targets like large hospital systems, but also turning their attention to mid-market and smaller systems and individual hospitals as well.
A Roadmap for Cost-Effective Management of Technology Solutions Over the Long Term
Technology investment choices are often challenging because of the lens in which the technology is viewed. Often seen through its end use, the cost of the technology can often overshadow the patient or clinical benefit of the technology. The end-use lens can also cloud how the technology works on a systemic level to improve the patient-family experience and improve patient outcomes.