PSQH: The Podcast Episode 101 – Preventing Drug Diversion with Technology
On episode 101 of PSQH: The Podcast, Karen Kobelski, vice president and general manager of clinical surveillance, Compliance & Data Solutions, Wolters Kluwer Health, talks about preventing drug diversion.
Looking Ahead Post-ViVE: AI, Security Concerns, and Industry Transactions
Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and significant partnerships shaping the future of healthcare were among the key takeaways from four days at ViVE 2024. Here are the other highlights of the best moments from the annual healthtech industry gathering and a look ahead.
Reconsidering How We Verify Identities in Healthcare
The size and scale of data breaches worsens each year; December 2023 saw at least two multimillion-record data breaches reported. As new tools like AI grow in prevalence, organizations need to start changing the way they handle data to keep pace with ever-worsening attacks.
Studies Look at Innovative Interventional Radiology Techniques
The treatments, which will be discussed at the Society of Interventional Radiology 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, look at innovations in treating prostate cancer, breast cancer, and uncontrolled post-partum hemorrhage.
Geisinger’s Plan to Boost Quality and Patient Experience Through Virtual Nursing
Virtual nursing provides new opportunities for nurses to have more flexibility, and for hospitals to use their staff more efficiently. A single nurse can now observe more patients at once, and watch for signs of patient discomfort or distress. Tenured nurses can stay employed longer, without having to worry about working long shifts, and they can support new nurses virtually.
Will the Change Healthcare Outage Prod Execs to Make Technology Improvements?
As healthcare organizations across the country assess the damage caused by the Change Healthcare outage, executives are not only looking at the financial fallout but also the technological repercussions. In short, what will health systems need to do to make sure this doesn’t happen again—or if it does happen, that they have the resources in place to minimize damage?
Giving Telehealth Its Due: How It Impacts Outcomes
There is a belief that virtual care providers are poised to establish standards of care that can even exceed in-person care, while helping hospital systems raise their quality and safety by strengthening existing teams, improving patient access, and ensuring patients can receive the timely care they need.
Is Healthcare Innovating Its Way Back to Patient Engagement?
The HIMSS24 panel, titled “Moving Beyond EHR Engagement: Deploy Consumer-Centric Strategies That Truly Empower Communities,” took a closer look at how providers are making engagement work. They’re listening more to their patients, embracing remote patient monitoring, virtual care, wearables and home-based services, and targeting care management and coordination.
Nutrition Labels: Ensuring Greater AI Transparency, Accountability in Healthcare
As we move full steam ahead into the artificial intelligence (AI) era, the healthcare industry is taking a cue from food and drug markets, slapping nutrition labels on AI-driven solutions, to share how they were trained and on what types of data. Nutrition labels in healthcare are intended to provide transparency to doctors, clinicians, and other health professionals so they can make informed decisions about how they use it.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 100 – The State of Virtual Healthcare
On episode 100 of PSQH: The Podcast, Frank McGillin, CEO at The Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, talks about the state of virtual care and how it can improve the quality of the patient experience. This episode is sponsored by Avtec, IAC and Origami Risk as part of PSQH’s activities for Patient Safety Awareness Week.