Pressure Builds for Federal Intervention on Change Healthcare Cyberattack
The American Hospital Association has added its voice to growing calls for federal intervention in the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
Report Examines C-Suite Priorities For 2024-2025
A new report from healthcare consultancy firm Sage Growth Partners polled health system and hospital executives on their strategic prioritization for the years ahead—and finds that there is an even more immediate need to reduce costs and operating expenses in a world that has weathered a global pandemic.
Is Nurse Burnout Causing More Trips to the Emergency Room?
A recent study from the Columbia School of Nursing found two pieces of key information: A sizeable proportion of primary care nurse practitioners are burnt out, and primary care practices with higher rates of nurse practitioner burnout are seeing higher rates of older patients with chronic conditions receiving acute care.
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?
How to Use EHRs to Reduce Dangerous Drug-Drug Interactions
With the advent of EHRs and digital health technology, health systems are looking to reduce those interactions by pinpointing when they can occur and giving clinicians on-demand access to information to prevent them. But that technology depends on understanding how clinicians prescribe drugs and how they look for dangerous interactions.
Error vs. Failure: Taking a Different Look at What Goes Wrong in Healthcare
When things go wrong in healthcare, we look at the wrong things after the fact, according to a presenter at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum in Orlando earlier this month.
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.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 94 – How Nurses Are Leading Patient Safety Innovation
On episode 94 of PSQH: The Podcast, Patricia McGaffigan, vice president, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Dina Dent, vice president and chief nursing officer at Inova Health System, talk about the IHI’s nurse-led pilot rapid-cycle improvement program.
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!
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 92 – Ensuring Patient Safety During the Medical Device Research Process
On episode 92 of PSQH: The Podcast, Korey Johnson, managing partner at Bold Insight, talks about ensuring that medical device research is safe for patients.