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  • Will the Change Healthcare Outage Prod Execs to Make Technology Improvements?

    As healthcare organizations across the country assess the damage caused by the Change Healthcare outage, executives are not only looking at the financial fallout but also the technological repercussions. In short, what will health systems need to do to make sure this doesn’t happen again—or if it does happen, that they have the resources in place to minimize damage?

  • How to Decrease Behavioral Health Patients Seeking Care in Emergency Rooms

    By offering a wide spectrum of mental health services, WellSpan Health has been able to reduce the number of behavioral health patients seeking care in the health system’s emergency rooms.

  • Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024 Resources

    Here’s a recap of all the content we ran for Patient Safety Awareness Week. Thanks to our sponsors Avtec, IAC, and Origami Risk for their support of the week.

  • PSQH Quick Poll 2024: Taking the Pulse of Patient Safety

    As part of PSQH’s celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we decided to reach out to our readers with a few questions to find out the state of patient safety efforts in 2024. This PSQH Quick Poll is presented in partnership with Origami Risk, Avtec, and IAC. The survey had a total of 285 respondents.

  • Is Healthcare Innovating Its Way Back to Patient Engagement?

    The HIMSS24 panel, titled “Moving Beyond EHR Engagement: Deploy Consumer-Centric Strategies That Truly Empower Communities,” took a closer look at how providers are making engagement work. They’re listening more to their patients, embracing remote patient monitoring, virtual care, wearables and home-based services, and targeting care management and coordination.

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