Patient-Generated Health Data: The Key to Clinical Innovation
Clinical innovation is more patient-centric and data-rich than ever. The biomedical research and development industry almost universally agrees that aggregating and analyzing shared data is essential to the accuracy of clinical research, development, and care.
Poor Patient Data Signals an Alarm in Healthcare Safety
While many of the above factors are monitored by medical boards, state and federal certification organizations, and even patients on social media, patient safety also is heavily tied to the quality of data used to make clinical decisions—an important but well-hidden variable. And the quality of patient data largely depends on how accurately patients are identified. Poorly identified patients are one of the main causes of safety issues in healthcare.
Five Things Healthcare Organizations Can Do to Improve Patient Engagement and Quality of Care
Patient engagement has become more important than ever—especially for those with complex care needs. Providers must find ways to engage patients and keep them in-network. The alternative risks worse outcomes and lost revenue.
ABQAURP News: August 2022
There is still time to register! Join other transformational leaders on October 6-7th at ABQAURP’s Annual Health Care Quality & Patient Safety Conference at the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, FL.
Home Caregiver Engagement Pivotal in Patients’ Care Transitions
Several earlier studies have shown negative impacts on adults with chronic conditions during healthcare transitions. About 26% of these patients experience emergency department visits, 18% experience rehospitalizations, 66% experience adverse drug events, and 81% experience medication discrepancies.
Top Hospitals Recognized for Consumer Loyalty, Patient Experience Excellence
NRC Health, a national consumer research corporation, announced the winners of its annual consumer loyalty and patient experience awards this week. Each year, the organization conducts surveys and gathers data on net promoter scores (NPS) to pick the winners of the Consumer Loyalty Awards and the Excellence in Patient Experience Awards (formerly known as the Excellence Awards).
USC Launches New Health Systems Management Engineering Program
This unique program offered by the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at USC Viterbi, aims to move graduates to the forefront of healthcare innovation and create new career paths. Professionals will have the opportunity to re-imagine or re-engineer how healthcare can be delivered more efficiently and learn how better patient outcomes can be achieved.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 59 – Increasing the Adoption of Advance Directives
On episode 59 of PSQH: The Podcast, Michael Cousins, Chief Analytics Officer at Lumeris, talks about efforts to increase the adoption of advance directives.
Partnership Successful at Weaning Patients Off Ventilators
Ventilator-dependent patients are medically complex and often have multiple morbidities. Providing care for these patients is costly, and they have extended lengths of stay compared to many hospitalized patients. In a partnership with Boca Raton, Florida-based Special Care Unit, Tampa General Hospital operates a Progressive Care Unit to wean patients off ventilators.
Follow 7 Principles for Disease and Risk Factor Screening in Emergency Departments
There is a tremendous opportunity to conduct screening in emergency departments. Research has shown that about half of U.S. adults over age 35 have not received screening for common health risk factors such as tobacco use and depression. The new journal article, which was published by Annals of Emergency Medicine, identifies seven principles for conducting disease and health risk screening in emergency departments.