Virtual Second Opinions Gain Momentum
Telehealth has already made remarkable strides in several areas, including primary care, radiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, and mental health. Now, Cedars-Sinai is among a fast-growing group of blue-chip providers that are offering virtual second opinions for patients across the nation.
Healthcare Risk Management Technology Helps Support Patient Safety Culture
By Origami Risk Healthcare Risk Management Technology Helps Support Patient Safety Culture The key to establishing a strong safety culture begins with leadership and filters through the organization. “Leaders are key to instilling a commitment to safety in all members of the organization to create a positive safety culture,” writes Dana Costar in “Cross-Cutting Patient … Continued
How Nurse Licensure Compacts Can Ease Chronic Nursing Shortages
The NLC has been operational for more than 20 years, though a new and modernized version of the language was drafted and approved by boards of nursing in 2015. Since then, 38 states and two territories—Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands—have enacted the NLC legislation.
Uncovering the Bigger Picture of Healthcare Risk
By Riskonnect How healthcare provider organizations can operationalize enterprise risk management Healthcare provider organizations (HPOs) often overlook the vital connection between traditional risk management activities—including patient safety, compliance, and quality—and broader enterprise risk management (ERM) efforts. This oversight is primarily due to data, operational, and technology silos within the risk landscape. “Consequently, providers find … Continued
PSQH Quick Poll 2023: Taking the Pulse of Healthcare Risk Management
As part of Health Risk Management Week, PSQH reached out to our readers with a few questions about how healthcare organizations are dealing with managing risks. The Quick Poll had a total of 127 respondents. Thanks to our sponsors Origami Risk and Riskonnect.
Pediatric NPs Gain a New Tool to Strengthen Mental Healthcare for Young Patients
The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) is launching NAPNAP Cares, with online continuing education (CE) courses designed to support pediatric-focused NPs and advanced practice RNs (APRNs) as they respond to the growing need for mental health care among young patients.
Will Policy, Regulation Issues Stifle AI’s Advances in Healthcare?
During the recent AIMed Global Summit in San Diego, Alya Sulaiman, a partner in the McDermott Will & Emery law firm who focuses on digital health, described an active landscape in which federal agencies like the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, the US Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission were competing with the likes of state attorneys general to regulate the technology.
3 Areas That Illuminate a Disconnect Between Nurses and Health Systems
The 2023 Healthcare Executive Report is the first-ever public study of health system executives by healthcare career marketplace Incredible Health and reveals the challenges that healthcare organizations face.
Emergency Room Workplace Violence: Electronic Behavioral Alerts May Be Prone to Bias
In a poll funded by the American College of Emergency Physicians, two-thirds of emergency physicians and 70% of nurses said they had been physically assaulted at work in the prior year. Patients were perpetrators in 97% of the workplace violence incidences in the poll. The poll found hitting, spitting, and punching were the most common kinds of physical assaults.
AI Could Match Patients With Clinical Trials
The survey of 58 payer and provider senior executives — many of whom specialize in AI and analytics, and more than half of whom work at larger hospitals and academic medical centers — was compiled in February and published this week in a CCM report.