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?

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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.

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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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Sponsored by - Avtec

Securing healthcare: Communication tools provide critical connections during emergencies

By Avtec When a large hospital organization in the Southeast gathered doctors, nurses, first responders, state police and the National Guard to run mass casualty drills, things did not go as planned. The biggest issue: communication. The military helicopters used different radio systems from first responders and police and the hospital staff used pagers. After … Continued

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PSQH: The Podcast Episode 100 – The State of Virtual Healthcare

On episode 100 of PSQH: The Podcast, Frank McGillin, CEO at The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, talks about the state of virtual care and how it can improve the quality of the patient experience. This episode is sponsored by Avtec, IAC and Origami Risk as part of PSQH’s activities for Patient Safety Awareness Week.

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Sponsored by - Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC)

Facilities Demonstrate a Commitment to Quality and Patient Safety through IAC Accreditation

By Tamara Sloper For more than 30 years, IAC accreditation has provided facilities with a method for demonstrating their commitment to providing quality patient care. Facilities performing a variety of diagnostic testing and interventional procedures, across a wide range of settings from private offices, outpatient imaging centers to community hospitals and large medical systems have … Continued

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