Implementing a Cross-Functional Workplace Violence Prevention Team
For years, healthcare facilities have heavily relied on safety and security teams to manage incidents, but siloed responses can fall short during critical incidents. Implementing collaborative, cross-functional teams to combat workplace violence is becoming more important than ever.
Improving the Flow of Prior Authorization for Better Care
Prior authorization is a frequent pain point for both patients and providers. Frustration at delays of care grows as staff try to navigate complex processes and systems for prior authorization.
Overcoming 4 Challenges in Telehealth Cybersecurity
Telehealth involves a vast amount of personal information, electronic health records, and financial data, making it a tempting target for cybercriminals. As use of these platforms grows more prevalent, providers should prioritize protecting confidential files and ensuring compliance to prevent breaches.
Maintaining the Medication Cold Chain in a Large Ambulatory Practice
This article describes the process implemented at a large multi-specialty academic ambulatory practice located on the Gulf Coast of Florida to ensure that while the medications are being procured, stored, and/or transported to outreach locations the proper storage temperature is maintained.
Clinical Data Abstraction vs. Chart Review: Aligned, But Not Identical
Despite their shared reliance on medical records, chart review and data abstraction serve distinct purposes, follow different processes, and typically deliver very different results for patients and organizations.
Opportunities for Change with TEAM
As the implementation of the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) grows closer, hospitals must continue to move from awareness into execution. Some hospital leaders struggle with the approaching deadline, while early adopters are figuring out how data infrastructure will make or break their performance during TEAM’s five-year window.
A Closer Look at Maintaining Hospital Mattresses and Surfaces
By Matt Phillion Here’s a sobering statistic: a recent study of 423 EMS deliveries found that only 55% of stretcher surfaces were disinfected. With 155 million people admitted to the emergency department (ED) every year, these surfaces are a hot spot for potential contamination. Meanwhile, 50% of all foam surfaces in acute care are compromised … Continued
Self-Service Research Tool Empowers Clinicians in the ER and Beyond
UChicago Medicine has adopted a self-service data solution that allows clinicians, researchers, staff members, and administrators to engage with their own data to ask and answer their own questions as they seek to improve quality of care.
Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences and Endometriosis
A new study has found that women who experienced childhood adversity are twice as likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis—findings that add to the growing body of evidence linking early life trauma with chronic, and often undiagnosed, inflammatory conditions.
AI in Healthcare: Addressing the Reality of Hallucinations
The use of AI tools continues to grow as clinicians use them for everyday processes like the creation of chart notes and care plans. But what happens when AI gets the facts wrong, and how can that impact patient safety?