Featured Story | | How Artificial Intelligence Can Help With Efficiency in Healthcare | | The shortage of expertise affects not just cardiology, but the entire spectrum of care—and it extends beyond places traditionally thought of as having limited healthcare options. From the U.S. and Europe to Africa and Asia, the universal need for more highly skilled physicians and other clinicians places these experts, and their time, at a premium. |
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News & Analysis | | More and More Hospital Surveys May Be Onsite, Depending on Conditions | | In a memo initially issued January 20 to CMS’ state survey agencies (SA) and revised on February 18, the federal overseer of Medicare said it was directing accreditation organizations (AO) to also limit hospital surveys based on certain criteria. However, in many cases hospitals still may be subject to their regular onsite, triennial reaccreditation survey. And they will be unannounced, as usual. |
| How to Support Clinicians Reluctant to Seek Support | | In the roughly 10 years since EmPRO began offering emotional support tools, the company has recognized, perhaps paradoxically, that as an insurance company they’re able to provide a unique level of support to clinicians suffering from burnout and chronic stress. |
| Accreditation Can Drive Business Capacity for Your Healthcare Organization | | Now more than ever, healthcare provider organizations can benefit from leveraging the broad value of accreditation. Many people associate accreditation solely with compliance and the survey experience, but with the right partner, accreditation is the source of a business relationship that can help drive performance improvement, operating efficiencies, and risk management—all aspects of a successful business growth strategy—while maintaining regulatory compliance. |
| Patient Safety NOW: Online Summit | | Patient Safety Now is PSQH’s exclusive online summit taking place on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. This free event features three sessions, run by industry leaders, focusing on a providing superior level of safety for your patients. |
PSQH Connect Advancing Safety and Care With Electronic Hand Hygiene Solutions | | Unlike COVID-19, this issue has a relatively simple solution: Automated hand hygiene monitoring devices hardwire best practices in staff, increase compliance with hospital policies, and mitigate the risks associated with healthcare-associated infections. |
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| Product Spotlight | | Life safety expert and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey. Order now! | | |
Career Center | | Post your open positions or find your next career move with the HCPro Career Center. | | |
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