Here are the Biggest Workforce Challenges in Nursing in 2024
Nurse leaders have had many challenges to face this year as the nursing shortage continues. CNOs and other healthcare executives have been brainstorming ideas for addressing this shortage as well as disruptors such as AI and virtual care.
HLTH Gave Healthcare Leaders A Chance to Look Beyond the Curtain
AI governance is, of course, a separate conversation, and one that many healthcare execs should be following. Healthcare organizations are embracing AI so rapidly that they’re in many cases making the rules on the fly, while collaborative efforts like CHAI and TRAIN are playing catch-up with standards and best practices.
International Infection Prevention Week Resources from PSQH
As International Infection Prevention Week wraps up, we want to thank infection preventionists for all the hard work they do every day. And thanks to BioVigil and Inovalon for sponsoring the week’s activities. In Friday’s issue of Patient Safety & Quality Insider, we’re recapping the content we ran this week for IIPW.
Becoming Better Listeners to Improve Remote Patient Monitoring
Patients and providers are more and more comfortable with devices for monitoring as well. We see patients using devices to track their blood glucose levels, blood pressure cuffs are getting smaller and smaller, and many people wear a watch that will tell you if you’re experiencing atrial fibrillation.
How to Enhance the Accuracy of Healthcare Predictive Analytics
Generating accurate and meaningful healthcare forecasts can be challenging, as models must be configured and managed properly in order to drive such results. This article covers healthcare predictive analytics accuracy and provides recommendations for enhancing it.
How CFOs Can Prioritize Cybersecurity
According to the American Hospital Association, as of October 7, 2024, 386 healthcare cyberattacks have been reported. Although the average cost associated with a cyberattack has dropped from $10 million in 2023 to $9.8 million in 2024, these attacks still outweigh many other sectors, making healthcare the most expensive industry for such incidents.
Revolutionizing Mental Healthcare Through AI-Enhanced Provider-Patient Relationships
As we stand at the intersection of behavioral health and cutting-edge technology, we must ask ourselves: How can we leverage these tools to not only improve patient outcomes but also strengthen the crucial provider-patient relationship?
Putting the ‘Where’ in Patient Care
Nearly a quarter of hospital admissions resulted in at least one adverse event in 2018 and 23% of those events were deemed to be preventable. Between 2023 and 2024, hospitals experienced a double-digit increase in non-labor expenses, according to Strata. As a result, 40% of American hospitals had been losing money from operations during that time, KaufmanHall found.
NewYork-Presbyterian Developing Innovative AI Tool
One of the advantages of NewYork-Presbyterian is that it is affiliated with two medical schools, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons as well as Weill Cornell Medicine, says Ashley Beecy, MD, medical director of AI operations at NewYork-Presbyterian.
Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare Are Increasing, Creating Longer Recovery
Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations have hit a four-year high since 2021, with two-thirds of companies saying they were impacted in the past year, according to a survey by security solutions firm Sophos.