Featured Story | | Cybersecurity is Still The Top Tech Threat in Healthcare, According to ECRI | | The Pennsylvania-based non-profit, which analyzes the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of care across the healthcare spectrum, says the threat of unauthorized online access or a data breach is as high as ever, due in large part to the sophistication of the attackers and the growing value of medical data. |
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News & Analysis | | COVID-19 Becoming Endemic Is a Matter of When, Not If | | According to Dr. Sachin Nagrani, medical director for primary care provider Heal, during a pandemic the number of COVID cases rise and fall across world at an unstable rate. However, for a virus to become endemic, there needs to be a constant prevalence of it an expected level on an ongoing basis. |
| Why Hospitals Should Disclose Medical Error | | Each year in the United States alone, an estimated 4.8 million hospital patients suffer serious harm through preventable causes. This alarming statistic is the driving factor behind Press Ganey’s Safety 2025 Initiative, which challenges the healthcare industry to achieve an 80% reduction in patient harm by 2025. Accomplishing this feat will take a systemic rethinking of the approach to addressing medical malpractice. |
| New Joint Commission 'Quick Safety' Advisory Addresses Intimate Partner Violence | | The new advisory provides Joint Commission requirements and national recommendations to identify and help patients who have experienced intimate partner violence, which is "behavior by an intimate partner or ex-partner that causes physical, sexual, or psychological harm, including physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse, and controlling behaviors," according to the World Health Organization. |
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