Healthcare and AI: Enhancing Care Through Emerging Technology
These new large language models can be used to improve natural language processing (NLP), but NLP itself isn’t something new—it’s a branch of artificial intelligence that has been around for decades.
AI Technology Can Help Us Solve the Nursing Crisis
WellSpan Health in Pennsylvania was experiencing many of the challenges facing other hospitals across the nation, including rising staffing costs, resignations of clinical staff, turnover, and narrowing margins. To overcome these barriers, WellSpan piloted a smart hospital platform powered by artificial intelligence.
The Cornerstone of Your Safety Strategy: Locating Technology
When developing your safety strategy, achieving a swift response that minimizes negative impacts to staff and patient experiences should be the targeted outcome. As clinical staff are taught to recognize when situations are becoming increasingly tense, empowering them with the right technology can make a significant difference.
Digital Identity: Empowering Clinicians with Mobility and Security
In a recent survey from AMNHealthcare, about 94% of nurses reported moderate to severe staff shortages, with over 60% saying they don’t have enough time to spend with patients. Patient care is always the highest priority for nurses, above cybersecurity or even their own well-being.
Top Software to Help Pharmacists Fight the Flu
For pharmacies in most of Europe, Canada, and the U.S., flu outbreaks result in peak demand and a significantly increased pressure on personnel, elevating their risk of burnout. During these trying times, pharmacy software systems come to the rescue.
Hospital Leadership’s Crucial Role in Sepsis Surveillance: Success at Phoebe Putney Health System
The leadership team at Phoebe Putney Health System recognized a pressing need to enhance real-time point-of-care adherence to sepsis care protocols and ensure the timely continuity of care for sepsis patients.
ABQAURP News October 2023
ABQAURP’s 46th Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference was a tremendous success! We are grateful to our attendees and conference partners for a fantastic event. We look forward to seeing you next year!
Healthcare IT: Looking to 2024 and Beyond
Healthcare has always had a target on its back for cyber threats, but hackers have widened the scope of their attacks: not just looking at high-profile, high-yield targets like large hospital systems, but also turning their attention to mid-market and smaller systems and individual hospitals as well.
New Report Looks at the Future of Patient Safety
A new report from Sage Growth Partners LLC, Leading Through Change: Because Patients Deserve More, pulls together insights from industry leaders in hospitals, health systems, non-profit organizations, and technology companies to offer perspectives on patient safety challenges, improvement opportunities, and ways healthcare organizations can advance positive change.
Comprehensive Medication Management: Improving Outcomes and ROI
Experts point to a holistic approach integrating pharmacists into primary care teams and comprehensive medication management that assesses each patient’s medications for appropriateness, effectiveness, safety, and adherence. This whole person model leads not only to patient safety improvement and better outcomes, but improved ROI as well.