Cybersecurity and Healthcare: Why the Industry Must be Vigilant About New Vulnerabilities
Across the country, healthcare executives are meeting with the FBI and taking extra security measures within their IT systems. Outsourcing and off-shoring IT governance is falling out of favor as an industry practice. Budgets are tight, but hospitals and health systems are expected to pour more internal resources into revamping their IT security in 2024 than ever before.
New Jersey Makes Hospital at Home a State Program
The Hospital at Home Act, which was passed by the state Legislature and signed by Governor Phil Murphy in September 2023 and enacted into law on January 23, establishes a state Hospital at Home permitting process through the New Jersey Department of Health that is consistent with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Acute Hospital Care at Home Program.
PSQH: The Podcast Episode 97 – The Benefits of Robotic Surgical Systems
On episode 97 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Maria Iliakova, bariatric and general surgeon, talks about the benefits of robotic surgical systems.
A New Option to the Crowded ED: Concierge Care
Concierge care programs designed specifically for urgent and emergency care are finding support from consumers who don’t want to wait several hours in an ED, along with primary care providers who don’t want to send their patients there. The service offers a cash-only alternative to the ED and could pull more patients away from hospitals and health systems.
Virtual Nursing Playbook: Nursing Execs Explain the Keys to Success
Denver Health and HonorHealth’s CNO-CNIO teams share what it takes to stand up and evolve a virtual nursing program that fosters quality care and human connection from both sides of the screen.
How Can Hospitals Turn the Home Into a Healthcare Hub?
A panel discussion at last week’s CES 2024 event in Las Vegas brought to light the challenges facing healthcare organizations who want to use the home for care delivery. For while the technology is in place to deliver care, healthcare executives have to rethink how they collect and use data from the home and interact with consumers.
Why are Care Teams Essential to Your Health System or Hospital?
In a recent position paper, the American College of Physicians stressed the importance of physician-led care teams. Team-based care models have been linked to good patient health outcomes and better healthcare-professional collaboration.
Nurses on Strike: How CNOs Can Meet in the Middle
Nurses are frustrated, and the recent union activity is indicative of large, widespread problems in the nursing industry with staffing, work environment, and nurse wellbeing. While it is the CNO’s responsibility to address those issues and to facilitate those conversations, it can be quite difficult.
Stroke Management with Teleneurology
The number of neurologists already doesn’t cover the demand for their services, and they are also distributed unevenly, creating so-called “neurological deserts” where patients don’t have access to quality neurological care.
Addressing Quality in an Ocean of Healthcare Apps
Consumers not only have a dizzying array of choices to make but are often shepherded into unique digital tools based on their interaction with healthcare—and reaching a breaking point where too much choice leads consumers to decision paralysis and the choice to not interact with those tools at all.