PSQH: The Podcast Episode 125 – Meeting the Latest Public Health Challenges
On episode 125 of PSQH: The Podcast, Marge McFarlane, principal, Superior Performance Consultants LLC, talks about how healthcare organizations are dealing with increased respiratory disease numbers and other public health challenges. This episode is sponsored by IAC, Inovalon, and Origami Risk as part of Patient Safety Awareness Week.
Another Reprieve? Proposed Budget Bill Includes Telehealth, HaH Extensions
According to the American Telemedicine Association and several others, the proposed Continuing Resolution unveiled on March 8 keeps in place pandemic-era waivers on key telehealth coverage and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Acute Hospital Care at Home program through September 30.
The Future of Patient Safety: How Technology, Data, and Culture Are Transforming Care
By Inovalon A conversation with Karen Biesack, RHIA, CPHQ, CPPS, Senior Application Support Analyst, Safety & Quality at Inovalon How is technology shaping the future of patient safety, and what innovations excite you the most? Clinical surveillance is transforming patient safety by moving healthcare from a reactive model to a proactive, real-time risk mitigation approach. … Continued
Experts Share Winning Strategies for Care Team Management
The physician shortage in many specialties is particularly challenging for care teams. Health systems and hospitals have risen to this challenge by employing more advanced practice providers to maintain care access and lighten the load on physicians.
Honoring Facilities’ Commitment to Quality and Safe Cardiovascular Care
By Tamara Sloper IAC accreditation provides facilities with a method for demonstrating their commitment to providing quality patient care for diagnostic testing, interventional and therapeutic procedures. Across a wide range of settings from private offices and outpatient imaging centers to community hospitals and large medical systems, facilities achieve and maintain IAC accreditation to ensure that … Continued
Improving the Call Center Interaction Experience for Patients
It’s a common thread in modern medicine: patients struggle to get care they need in a timely manner because they can’t reach their physicians. As we look for ways to improve communication between patient and provider, is there room for automation to pave the path between the two?
Keeping the Lights On
The challenges of maintaining 24/7 operations during construction, meeting ambitious sustainability goals, and navigating staff and budget constraints can strain even the most resilient systems. Healthcare facilities are turning to phased construction methods, scalable infrastructure design, and holistic planning approaches to meet these challenges.
Physicians Are Unionizing. What Should CMOs Do?
A Journal of the American Medical Association article published in December found physician unionization picked up momentum over the past two years. Recent physician unionization efforts include primary care physicians seeking to unionize at Mass General Brigham.
Improving Care Through Better Interoperability
As healthcare works toward improved patient safety, more secure interoperability, and increased collaboration in an evolving regulatory landscape, there is much on the line to get it right.
Virtual Nursing Will Be Nonnegotiable: Here’s How CNOs Can Prepare
While health systems might have different approaches or be at different stages of implementation, there are several common virtual nursing strategies that CNOs should take into consideration.