How Digital Health Lays the Groundwork for Future Healthcare Strategy
Baptist Health is one of many health systems using digital health to improve its ICU services and connect care providers throughout the Arkansas-based 11-hospital network, improving care at the bedside and enabling small, rural hospitals to reduce transfers and care for more patients. Executives say the platform, which has been in use for roughly 14 years, allows them to coordinate care from the main hospitals in Little Rock and give outlying hospitals with fewer resources the support they need.
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Time Management Brings Order to Nurse Leaders’ COVID Chaos
When COVID-19 brought chaos to nurse leaders at Allegheny Health Network (AHN)’s 14 hospitals, a time management course designed just for them helped them feel less overwhelmed about their day.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 46 – How Technology Can Help Ease the Burden on Physicians
On episode 46 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Mukul Mehra, Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of IllumiCare, talks about how to deal with physician shortages and burnout.
Opioid Use Disorder Plays Significant Role in Many Sepsis Cases
Sepsis develops in response to infection, and can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. Sepsis is the leading cause of in-hospital death in the United States. More than 1.7 million Americans are diagnosed with sepsis annually.
Additional Respiratory Support
NHF therapy has been in use since at least the 1960s, providing respiratory support to neonatal, pediatric, and adult patients. In adults, NHF consists of the administration of a gas flow via cannula above 30 liters per minute in adults, heated to 37°C and with a humidity (water vapor) content of 44 milligrams per liter. The method is reportedly more comfortable for patients and can minimize the need for more invasive and costly respiratory support if applied early on.
Improving Care and Monitoring at Home Through Technology
Boston-based Current Health recently merged with Best Buy to increase access to home health options. Chief Medical Officer Adam Wolfberg, MD, was part of discussions about expanding work in this area prior to the pandemic. But when COVID-19 hit, “Current Health quickly realized we had an opportunity to serve an important role,” he says. “Healthcare had a capacity problem, and we were expanding capacity to let relatively less acute patients be cared for at home.”
COVID-19 Becoming Endemic Is a Matter of When, Not If
According to Dr. Sachin Nagrani, medical director for primary care provider Heal, during a pandemic the number of COVID cases rise and fall across world at an unstable rate. However, for a virus to become endemic, there needs to be a constant prevalence of it an expected level on an ongoing basis.
Why Hospitals Should Disclose Medical Error
Each year in the United States alone, an estimated 4.8 million hospital patients suffer serious harm through preventable causes. This alarming statistic is the driving factor behind Press Ganey’s Safety 2025 Initiative, which challenges the healthcare industry to achieve an 80% reduction in patient harm by 2025. Accomplishing this feat will take a systemic rethinking of the approach to addressing medical malpractice.
Cybersecurity is Still The Top Tech Threat in Healthcare, According to ECRI
The Pennsylvania-based non-profit, which analyzes the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of care across the healthcare spectrum, says the threat of unauthorized online access or a data breach is as high as ever, due in large part to the sophistication of the attackers and the growing value of medical data.