Bad Medicine: Healthcare Struggles With Poor Technology
The study, the third in Black Book’s “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Healthcare IT Investments” series, finds that bad IT investments have jumped significantly since 2017, when those costs were estimated at $1.7 billion, and budget limitations are keeping healthcare leaders from correcting those problems.
Transforming Precision Surgery: The Vital Role of Data-Driven Surgical Navigation Systems
We are scratching the surface of comprehending the full spectrum of benefits and their potential for advancing medical practice. As we look to the future of personalized medicine, it quickly becomes clear that medical technology and surgical insights will be a driving force behind healthcare data collection.
How to Improve Antibiotics Stewardship for Pediatric Patients
Antibiotic stewardship has several benefits, including lowering cost of care, reducing medication side effects, and addressing antimicrobial resistance. For pediatric patients, most antibiotics are prescribed in the outpatient setting.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 114 – Reducing Medication Errors with Technology
On episode 114 of PSQH: The Podcast, Lani Bertrand, Senior Director, Clinical Marketing & Thought Leadership at Omnicell, talks about how technology can help reduce medication errors.
As AI Use Cases Grow in Healthcare, Executives Scramble to Grab the Reins
At the recent HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum in Boston, issues of compliance and liability were front and center for health system executives looking to chart a clear and effective AI strategy. Sunil Dadlani, chief information and digital officer for the Atlantic Health System, said AI regulation must be handled carefully, so that it doesn’t curb innovation.
Nursing Needs a Reality Check: Mentorship, Onboarding, and Beyond
Newer generations of nurses are expecting more technology, flexibility, and reassurance from management, and without that setting, many new graduate nurses are choosing to leave their health systems or leave nursing entirely. CNOs need to pivot their strategies to meet these new expectations, while balancing the needs of their organization.
The Effectiveness and Cost-Savings of Addressing SDoH
In 2024, CMS is also introducing two new inpatient quality reporting measures: SDoH screening and the positive rate for SDoH screening to assess how many patients aged 18 and older were screened for the required social risk drivers.
Are Hospital at Home Programs Forgetting About the Patient?
Fueled by the promise of remote patient monitoring and the acute care at home (or Hospital at Home) strategy, healthcare leaders see the home as a better place than the hospital room for many patients to recover from treatment.
Leapfrog Report Shows Improved Hand Hygiene in U.S. Hospitals
Leapfrog, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, last week released its 2024 Hand Hygiene Report. Leapfrog found that hospitals have made significant progress in hand hygiene practices thanks to increased leadership involvement and adoption of electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems.
Are RPM Programs Riddled With Fraud?
Following a report this week from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) hinting at a possibility of fraud in requests for Medicare reimbursement in RPM programs, the Alliance for Connected Care has criticized the “inaccuracies and subjective nature” of that report and called on the OIG to retract it.