Diving Into 2024: Challenges and Trends in Nursing
To get a glimpse at what to expect in nursing this year, HealthLeaders sat down with Lisa Dolan, CNO at Ardent Health Services, to discuss what she thinks are the top five biggest challenges facing CNOs, and the impacts of new technologies and virtual nursing.
Augmented Reality Makes a Difference in TKA
The intent is to enable surgeons to make quick assessments and micro-adjustments to their surgical plan, removing the need for the imprecision of traditional instrumentation with more control than robotics.
Reducing Pregnancy Complications Through Staffing and Technology
According to the CDC, the infant death rate in the U.S. rose by 3% in 2022, climbing to 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. How is evidence-based perinatal research able to affect new care practices to address pregnancy-related complications and what can the industry do to improve clinical decisions and early interventions?
4 CMO Predictions for Healthcare in 2024
Healthcare organizations are facing a slew of challenges. Those challenges include workforce shortages that are straining the ranks of physicians and nurses and economic woes that threaten the operations of health systems, hospitals, and physician practices.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 95 – How Technology Can Improve IV Safety
On episode 95 of PSQH: The Podcast, Gary Warren, CEO of ivWatch, talks about how technology can improve IV safety.
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.
Patient Safety Predictions for 2024
PSQH reached out to experts throughout healthcare to get their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2024. Here’s what they had to say.
Redesigning Care Management for Medically Complex Children
Children with medical complexity make up less than 1% of children in the United States, but they represent 56% of hospitalized pediatric patients and 82% of hospital days in children’s hospitals. Children with medical complexity represent just 5% to 6% of children covered under Medicaid, but they account for approximately one third of Medicaid expenditures on pediatric patients.
CMOs Predict Widespread Artificial Intelligence Uptake in 2024
President Joe Biden recently made an executive order on AI to promote the safe, secure, and trustworthy use of the technology. While the executive order did not provide details on healthcare guidelines for AI, healthcare executives expressed cautious optimism about the government’s approach to the technology.
Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign
Health systems across the country are turning to a variety of tools and strategies, many of them centered on virtual nursing. While the emphasis is on making the most of the shrinking nursing workforce by reducing stressful workflows, these programs are also increasingly targeting clinical outcomes, ranging from reduced length of stay to improved monitoring and patient engagement.