Professionals throughout healthcare to gave their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2023. Here’s what they had to say.
CMS and The Joint Commission require physicians and other healthcare practitioners to communicate in a manner the patient can understand. Sometimes this involves removing a language barrier. And sometimes it’s simply about avoiding the use of medical jargon.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) earlier this month released its 2022 Quality Roadmap, an analysis of data from 2,016 accreditation surveys conducted in 2021-22. The accreditor encourages healthcare organizations to use the report to establish benchmarks...
Sepsis is the cause of death for many influenza patients, O’Brien says. “Annually, there about 200,000 hospitalizations that are associated with influenza, and there are around 40,000 deaths. If you look within those deaths, there is a significant number of patients who end up dying of sepsis,...
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the accelerated uptake of technology, says Patty Hayward, vice president of strategy, healthcare, and life sciences with ...
Lauris V. Freidenfelds, vice president of security risk consulting with Telgian Engineering & Consulting, has been in many roles as a healthcare security leader. He’s a nationally recognized security and emergency management consultant.
The focus on profits in U.S. healthcare is “damaging,” Institute for Healthcare Improvement President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Donald Berwick, MD, said during last week’s IHI Forum in Orlando, Florida.
An aging and retiring nurse workforce, burnout from the pandemic, and a rapidly greying Baby Boomer population have created a trifecta of staffing challenges across the healthcare space, but one nurse leader has some suggestions.