Raising the Bar: New Progress and Potential in Treating Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a potentially serious mood disorder that affects approximately one in seven women within the first year after giving birth. As with general depression, the combination of symptoms can be debilitating and even fatal.
Redefining Patient Safety: 6 Ways to Address Harm in Healthcare
Despite my education and medical training, I know how helpless it can feel when you’re handed a life-altering diagnosis or comforting a loved one in pain. And it’s through the lens of these experiences that I urge our industry to accelerate progress in safety, as we relentlessly pursue zero harm.
Becoming Better Listeners to Improve Remote Patient Monitoring
Patients and providers are more and more comfortable with devices for monitoring as well. We see patients using devices to track their blood glucose levels, blood pressure cuffs are getting smaller and smaller, and many people wear a watch that will tell you if you’re experiencing atrial fibrillation.
Community and Compassion: Providing Safe Care for Transgender Patients
Community organizations have come to play a crucial role in bridging gaps in transgender healthcare, emerging as allies in providing essential support networks and medical resources. These local and national support groups, educational resources, and advocacy services work to provide a holistic view of transgender healthcare, working to ensure that patients are able to safely access quality care.
How to Enhance the Accuracy of Healthcare Predictive Analytics
Generating accurate and meaningful healthcare forecasts can be challenging, as models must be configured and managed properly in order to drive such results. This article covers healthcare predictive analytics accuracy and provides recommendations for enhancing it.
Revolutionizing Mental Healthcare Through AI-Enhanced Provider-Patient Relationships
As we stand at the intersection of behavioral health and cutting-edge technology, we must ask ourselves: How can we leverage these tools to not only improve patient outcomes but also strengthen the crucial provider-patient relationship?
Putting the ‘Where’ in Patient Care
Nearly a quarter of hospital admissions resulted in at least one adverse event in 2018 and 23% of those events were deemed to be preventable. Between 2023 and 2024, hospitals experienced a double-digit increase in non-labor expenses, according to Strata. As a result, 40% of American hospitals had been losing money from operations during that time, KaufmanHall found.
Virtual Triage: A New Way of Identifying Patients in Need of Emergency Care
Virtual triage (VT) engines can be thought of as “symptom checkers” that leverage artificial intelligence to provide access to information services beyond physician office hours on an anywhere, anytime basis from any internet-connected device.
Transforming Precision Surgery: The Vital Role of Data-Driven Surgical Navigation Systems
We are scratching the surface of comprehending the full spectrum of benefits and their potential for advancing medical practice. As we look to the future of personalized medicine, it quickly becomes clear that medical technology and surgical insights will be a driving force behind healthcare data collection.
The Effectiveness and Cost-Savings of Addressing SDoH
In 2024, CMS is also introducing two new inpatient quality reporting measures: SDoH screening and the positive rate for SDoH screening to assess how many patients aged 18 and older were screened for the required social risk drivers.