The Uberization of Healthcare Is Here
New physician scheduling platform aims to help consumers shop for doctors on price, quality, and availability.
Medical Physicists Bring New Value to Patient-Centered Care
Faced with broad and profound changes in the delivery of healthcare—including declining reimbursements and new mandates to deliver value-based, personalized, and evidence-based medicine—healthcare is benefiting from the growing contributions of medical physicists.
IAD: An Avoidable and Preventable Complication of Care
Clinical assessment of IAD is foundational for effective prevention and management, yet it remains a challenge for bedside staff.
EHRs in Primary Care Practices Not Suited for Cancer History
The EHRs have limited capability to record information on patients’ cancer history, and clinicians are not provided with actionable recommendations for follow-up care.
Training New Doctors Right Where They’re Needed
Created by the ACA in 2010, teaching health centers serve areas with large unmet medical needs.
Some Infection Prevention Guidelines Remain Stubbornly Unclear
In the absence of adequate published guidance, Iowa researchers produce a five-tiered classification of procedures, encompassing “clean, aseptic, sterile-superficial, sterile-invasive,” and “surgical-like procedures.”
Saving Blood: The Relatively Simple Task of Blood Management
RBC transfusion have increased 134% between 1997 to 2011 to become the most frequently performed hospitals procedure in America. And while they are a vital tool for treating patients, they come with potential risks like allergic reactions, fever, and infection.
Nurse’s Stabbing Prompts ED Security Changes
Harrington’s workforce will undergo additional training in de-escalation techniques and defensive tactics, and public safety officers will be armed with batons, foam-based pepper spray, and handcuffs.
Sepsis Study Pits EHR vs. Claims Data
This article first appeared October 2, 2017 on HealthLeaders Media. By Tinker Ready A study of sepsis cases using EHR rather than claims data finds little change in either incidence of infection or mortality over a four-year period. Is the incidence of sepsis stable or is it increasing? Awareness campaigns and clinical education programs would … Continued
Preventing Patient Identification Errors
Before organizations can find solutions to patient identification errors, a root cause analysis based on past misidentifications should be conducted.