Featured Story | | Researchers Link 266K Avertable Deaths to COVID Vaccination Rates | | The rate of COVID mortality in the nation's 10 least-vaccinated states – 145 per 100,000 population -- was nearly double the COVID mortality rate of the 10 most-vaccinated states (74.5/100,000), according to the letter which was published Friday in JAMA Network. |
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News & Analysis | | Improving Patient Experience and Disparate Tech | | Healthcare organizations and providers have made significant investments toward patient-oriented care in recent years. But with the adoption of many new technologies comes unintended results. While integrating patient engagement capabilities was a high priority for 55% of survey participants, 84% did not think any existing platform could easily achieve this. |
| Improving Access to Ultrasound at the Point of Care | | With more user-friendly technology that leverages artificial intelligence (AI), caregivers across departments—from emergency care to cardiology to primary care—could use ultrasound to quickly diagnose and treat patients suffering from a plethora of conditions. In fact, they’d be able to use it wherever the point of care happens to be, whether that’s in a hospital, in a clinic, or at a patient’s home. |
| Share Your Innovative Quality Improvement Ideas | | Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare is seeking to spotlight the best healthcare quality improvement case studies. By imparting their in-the-trenches experiences and lessons learned, the chosen case studies will shed light on an issue, practice, or principle that affects stakeholders across the modern medical staff landscape. |
| How Nurse Leaders Can Advance Excellence in Quality Improvement, High Reliability & Patient Safety | | A theme within the literature on safety and nursing strongly suggests nurses are key to EVERY quality and safety initiative and EVERY aspect of the quality and safety movements in highly reliable organizations. On this Nov. 29 webinar, Dr. Diana Swihart will describe the integration of the elements of nursing leadership, quality, patient safety, and high reliability in healthcare organizations, and much more. |
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| Product Spotlight | | This book looks at the role leadership played in transforming their facilities into high-reliability organizations (HRO). By implementing top-down processes that translate throughout the organization, leaders can create environments that foster high reliability, patient safety, and care. Through the use of checklists, the authors demonstrate how situational awareness and structure can be created, leading to the HRO goal of preventing adverse events and errors. Order now! | | |
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