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?
ABQAURP News February 2024
In 2023, the National Transitions of Care Coalition’s (NTOCC) Transitions of Care (TOC) Pharmacy Advisory Committee and its Sub-Committee on Value-Based Care & Outcomes created and sent out the NTOCC Transitions of Care Pharmacy Outcomes Survey to the NTOCC Community and their social media followers, including some ABQAURP members.
How to Decrease Behavioral Health Patients Seeking Care in Emergency Rooms
By offering a wide spectrum of mental health services, WellSpan Health has been able to reduce the number of behavioral health patients seeking care in the health system’s emergency rooms.
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2024 Resources
Here’s a recap of all the content we ran for Patient Safety Awareness Week. Thanks to our sponsors Avtec, IAC, and Origami Risk for their support of the week.
PSQH Quick Poll 2024: Taking the Pulse of Patient Safety
As part of PSQH’s celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, we decided to reach out to our readers with a few questions to find out the state of patient safety efforts in 2024. This PSQH Quick Poll is presented in partnership with Origami Risk, Avtec, and IAC. The survey had a total of 285 respondents.
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.
Securing healthcare: Communication tools provide critical connections during emergencies
By Avtec When a large hospital organization in the Southeast gathered doctors, nurses, first responders, state police and the National Guard to run mass casualty drills, things did not go as planned. The biggest issue: communication. The military helicopters used different radio systems from first responders and police and the hospital staff used pagers. After … Continued
Closing the Disparity Gap for Disabled Patients
A new proposed rule by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is intended to battle healthcare discrimination for disabled Americans. This update in focus has highlighted the need for improvements in training to enable better outcomes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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.