Featured Story | | In Pandemic's Wake, Healthcare IT Faces New Realities | | New realities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are reshaping healthcare IT in ways that affect leadership, employees, and patients, according to a panel of healthcare system executives convened virtually during the recent virtual CHIME21 Spring Forum. |
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News & Analysis | | Improving Interoperability | | Often the blame for technological disruptions goes to a lack of interoperability—the ability of information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and put this exchanged information to use. Ideally, data exchange standards would allow data to be shared across clinicians, labs, and facilities, regardless of the application or software vendor. |
PSQH Connect Advance Care Planning: A Quality and Patient Safety Must | | A year living through a pandemic has made this issue even more abundant—older patients, and those with chronic conditions, have been among those most at risk for severe, life-threatening conditions, including those attached to COVID-19. And what happens when one of these patients is placed on a ventilator, unable to voice their wants in terms of treatment? To avoid these scenarios, the industry needs to ensure providers, caregivers, patients, and families are engaged in advance care planning discussions. |
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| Barriers to Incident Reporting in Healthcare | | To understand and improve any system, we must look at its successes and failures. When it’s life and death, healing or inadvertently injuring patients, the stakes could not be higher. Our healthcare providers and staff undertake complex work under pressure of time constraints, and in environments where priorities shift. This article is presented by symplr. |
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| Hand Hygiene: No Time for Pandemic Fatigue | | Everyone in healthcare, whether frontline staff or providers of ancillary services, must consistently perform hand hygiene. How do we achieve compliance with this basic practice of infection prevention? This April 29 presentation will focus on proper hand hygiene protocols and why consistent hand hygiene is so important in this time of COVID-19 pandemic fatigue. |
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