In some hospitals these protocols might now even be triggered by the first CDI case, before a second case was confirmed and therefore before typing was requested. In terms of infection control measures, for CDI a growing evidence base has shown that a number of measures are effective. The ...
Google Cloud and HCA Healthcare have created a national patient registry to share information on coronavirus test results and how many healthy patients are discharged from hospitals. This may or may not include PHI. Amazon has also opened up itscoronavirus “data lake”to hospitals to help them ...
Jackiewicz cited the benefits of knowledge exchange in his organization’s partnership with another healthcare system. “It’s been really helpful for us, because they run hospitals much more efficiently than we do. There are some infrastructure things that they’ve...
Parlance, a leader in the healthcare IT space, works with many of the largest health systems in the country to alleviate contact center and switchboard burdens. More than a thousand hospitals and clinics partner with Parlance to elevate...
Many American hospitals are embracing the philosophies of continuous quality improvement (CQI) or total quality management (TQM). To date, case studies in the literature have largely dealt with administrative processes. However, CQI can also improve direct patient care (clinical) processes using ...
Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted with robust benefits including establishing hospitals for veterans, making low-interest mortgages available, granting stipends to cover tuition and trade school expenses, offering job training and hiring privileges, and more. Over the course...
Since COVID-19 started causing havoc all over the world earlier this year, things have been tough on the medical industry. There have been massive influxes of people to hospitals with a range of symptoms, hoping to get the best treatment possible. ...
Voice User Interface (VUI) design is increasingly utilized to foster emotional connections with patients and help them self-manage their conditions. As hospitals and providers look to reduce “white coat syndrome,” and find ways for patients to feel more comfortable sharing information in a non-ju...
Lipinski asked LCMC Health, owner of several big New Orleans hospitals: “Why does your organization apply facility fees to your patients’ bills?” The response: “Services that take place within a hospital outpatient department are separated into two bills – one for the services o...
Studies have demonstrated that the incidence of SSIs varies widely between hospitals and between surgical procedures 7. Surgical teams that know their SSI rates can undertake measures to reduce them. This can be achieved through the implementation of basic, relatively inexpensive infection-prevention meas...