From Recalls to Reliability: Tools to Ensure Software Safety in MedTech
Cutting-edge technology empowers developers to proactively detect and mitigate issues before they cause problems, reducing recalls and fostering trust in the industry.
Driving Safer Care for All with Connected Healthcare Operations
Addressing preventable harm starts with breaking down the data silos that exist within the healthcare landscape and pulling disparate systems together through connected healthcare operations.
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Private Equity Ownership Leads to Worse Patient Outcomes at Hospitals, Study Shows
Yet another study has been published showing that patients receiving care at PE-owned hospitals experienced a higher rate of hospital-acquired adverse events, like infections and falls, than patients receiving care at hospitals that are not PE-owned. The research comes as concerns about PE-owned hospitals are intensifying — from leaders both within and outside of the healthcare industry.
Some of Your Doctors’ Best Qualities are the Same Ones Stifling Your Healthcare Experience
Although problems in US healthcare abound, the most insidious challenges are often tightly coupled with the industry’s most appealing and instilled virtues — a highly selective and independent workforce, (b) an extremely low tolerance for risk, and (c) a high degree of professional oversight.
‘Increasingly Concerned’ Senators Launch Investigation Into Private Equity’s Effect on Healthcare
This week, two bipartisan members of the Senate Budget Committee launched an investigation into private equity and its impact on healthcare. They initiated the probe to get answers about “questionable financial transactions” that could be hurting care quality for patients at hospitals owned by private equity firms.
4 Steps Needed to Improve Patient Safety On a National Level, Per PCAST
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report that laid out four recommendations to improve patient safety across the nation. Some of these included creating federal leadership positions focused on advancing patient safety and hastening research on systems of safe care.
At ViVE 2024, Panelists Share Prior Authorization Progress and Frustration in Payer Insights Program
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
Pediatric Mental Health Crisis Tops ECRI’s List of 2023 Patient Safety Concerns
Each year, nonprofit ECRI creates a list of the industry’s top ten patient safety concerns. This year, the pediatric mental health crisis topped the list, above other important issues like violence against healthcare staff and clinicians being expected to work outside their scope of practice.
How One Startup Is Working to Reduce Surgical Variability & Bring Transparency to the OR
Palo Alto-based Theator makes technology to help providers understand the high level of variability in outcomes among common surgical procedures. The startup recently uncovered a key reason why patient suffer complications after hysterectomies, and it stems from the fact that surgeons lack a standardized set of safety practices to which they must adhere.
Report: Nurse Understaffing Is Becoming More Deadly for Patients
More than 90% of nurses in Michigan believe that understaffing is negatively affecting the quality of care they’re able to provide, according to a new report. The percentage of respondents who know of a patient death being caused by nurses being assigned too many patients nearly doubled in the past seven years — from 22% in 2016 to 42% in 2023.
How hospitals should approach quality improvement in a post-Covid-19 world
While no single approach is right for every hospital, there are a few fundamental tenets that all healthcare organizations should keep in mind as they design a quality improvement program.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Report: staffing shortages and provider’s mental health are top concerns affecting patient safety
A 2022 report by patient safety company ECRI listed the top ten risk factors to patient safety and provided actionable steps to mitigate each risk.
A whopping majority of surveyed workers at HCA say staffing shortage is “compromising patient care”
A survey by the Service Employees International Union found that 89% of polled nurses and healthcare workers at HCA Healthcare feel staff shortages at their hospital are hurting patients. Union leaders urged hospital leaders to urgently address the shortage.
How Hospital Sisters Health System is using tech to advance patient safety goals
In an interview with MedCity News, Hospital Sisters Health System's Director of Quality Bill Cox discussed the types of technology the 15-hospital system is using to enhance patient safety and why a systemwide strategy and culture shift is necessary for successful IT deployment.
California sues nation’s largest nursing home operator for ‘cutting corners’ in patient care
The state of California is suing Brookdale Senior Living for alleged patient safety violations at 10 nursing homes in the state and for providing false data to boost its CMS star rating. Brookdale denies both claims.
Why most hospitals could save millions by improving patient safety
Improving patient safety and increasing the bottom line aren’t competing priorities. Here’s how hospitals can accomplish both objectives.