Are Healthcare Leaders Getting Their AI Priorities Straight?
Schwamm says the healthcare industry has become “accustomed” and “complacent” in healthcare IT, and Ai is presenting healthcare leaders with issues they haven’t encountered before. The AI evolution, he pointed out, is similar to the development of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, but health systems and hospitals haven’t developed the governance to regulate these tools before they’re used.
Leveraging Call Centers for Better Patient Care
Organizations can take advantage of patient/member interactions to drive better results by taking care of important but routine additional interactions, notes Patty Hayward, GM of healthcare and life sciences with Talkdesk.
How Clinicians Can Avoid ‘Medspeak’ When Communicating with Patients
“Medspeak” is characterized as medical terminology used by clinicians that leads to communication gaps with patients. Medspeak gets in the way of effective shared decision-making for clinicians and patients.
Telling a Better Care Story with Health Risk Assessments
Unlock Health has designed its Substance Abuse HRA, an online health risk assessment, to enable behavioral health treatment centers, healthcare providers, and integrated health systems a way to accurately identify individuals at risk for SUD and engage with them early on to personalize treatment plans and provide better outcomes.
ABQAURP News August 2024
Here’s the August 2024 edition of ABQAURP News.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 112 – Improving Staff Retention in Healthcare
On episode 112 of PSQH: The Podcast, Heidi Raines, founder of Performance Health Partners, talks about how to improve staff retention in healthcare.
NIOSH: Healthcare Workers Receiving Reusable Respirators Rate Safety Climate ‘High’
According to a survey by NIOSH, healthcare workers who received reusable respirators, such as elastomeric half-mask respirators, during the COVID-19 pandemic gave high marks on the safety climate at their workplaces. The institute highlighted its respiratory research and promotion efforts in its September eNews.
The Clock is Ticking on Telemedicine Prescriptions
The Alliance for Connected Care is preparing stakeholder letters to the White House and Senate and House leadership urging them to put pressure on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to extend for two years a pandemic-era waiver allowing providers to use telemedicine. Extending the waiver, currently set to end this year, would give the DEA time to create a long-sought registration process for those prescriptions.
MetroHealth Achieves Interoperability Between Visitor Management and EMR Platforms for Secure, Real-Time Patient Visitor Monitoring
From the early planning stages of construction, MetroHealth leaders placed a high priority on the safety and security of their patients, visitors, and staff. Implementing a visitor management system was one way to enable this requirement.
What I Wish I Had Known
Safety in healthcare has undergone nothing short of a revolution. Having spent years navigating these complexities, I’ve learned a few things—often the hard way—that I would impart to my younger self, who created the safety program at Brigham and Women’s many years ago.