Understanding Desired Outcomes and Goals Is Crucial in AI Adoption
Health systems and hospitals also must have appropriate AI governance, so that they not only are evaluating AI when it is adopted but also reviewing how AI models are functioning.
What Happens When Nurses Are Misclassified as Independent Contractors?
While navigating recruitment and staffing challenges, it’s important to look at how nurses will be brought on and integrated into the workforce. Part of this process involves making sure nurses fall under the proper worker classification, and ensuring that the hospital or health system remains in compliance with legal requirements for classification.
Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grades Find Patient Safety Improvements Nationwide
The Hospital Safety Grade uses up to 30 performance measures to assign an “A, “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” to individual hospitals and uses a public, peer-reviewed methodology, calculated by top patient safety experts under the guidance of a National Expert Panel. It is transparent and free to the public. Leapfrog analysts use the data to observe national performance trends and state rankings.
How To Ensure that Medical Teams Can Access Interpreters in Rare Languages
Failing to provide interpreters to patients who speak rare or indigenous languages can worsen health disparities, particularly for populations such as refugees and asylum-seekers. This only compounds the barriers many already face when accessing healthcare.
How to Take a Comprehensive Approach to AI Governance
The health system is integrating AI tools into daily work to accelerate decision-making, simplify workflows, and reduce non-clinical task burdens. This includes internally generated innovations that leverage AI to enhance patient experience and reduce clinician burnout, according to Asmar.
New Leapfrog Analysis Looks at HAI Rates
A new analysis from Leapfrog has found a steady downward trajectory for HAIs since COVID-19—but while these improvements are encouraging, there’s still more work to be done with transparent reporting and patient empowerment to get to zero-lives-lost from preventable infections.
Improving Sepsis Education, Identification, and Awareness
The CDC also included several questions in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) 2023 Annual Survey seeking to understand the current state of sepsis programs in healthcare organizations.
How a Care Coordination Center Can Improve Care Inefficiencies
The facility will act as a transfer center, with access to real-time data across the health system’s six acute-care hospitals. A team including nurses stationed at the center will be able to coordinate patient transfers both within the health system and from other facilities into the system.
Will Congress Save Telehealth?
Pandemic-era telehealth waivers that allowed providers to expand their virtual care footprint will end this year unless Congress takes action.
ABQAURP News October 2024
Here’s the October 2024 edition of ABQAURP News.