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Leapfrog Group releases hospital grades, medical errors calculator
Did your hospital make the grade? The Leapfrog Group has unveiled its spring 2017 Hospital Safety Grade, and 823 hospitals got an A.
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What are healthcare organizations’ biggest challenges this year?
Hospitals and health systems face multiple challenges as they transition away from fee-for-service models and toward value-based care. A new survey from EY dug deeper into this issue.
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New Jersey seeks to prevent patient mix-ups with “Master Person Index”
In an effort to reduce medical errors and potential misunderstandings, the New Jersey Innovation Institute is developing a “Master Person Index,” which will serve as a master database of each New...
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How is Stanford Medicine’s Chief Wellness Officer seeking to reduce physician...
“We’ve shown in a number of studies that every one point increase in burnout [as measured by a survey] increases the risk of a medical error in the next three months,” said Dr. Tait Shanafelt, Stanford...
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Communication breakdown: Healthcare delivery is still hindered by preventable...
Even with EHRs, notes are still written down on paper and some critical communication never happens between clinicians. To reduce medical errors, we need to keep improving our systems for collaboration.
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25 Shocking Statistics That Keep Healthcare Executives Up at Night
History has shown that while healthcare is more open to adopting technology to improve outcomes, […]
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The Healthcare AI Question No One Wants to Answer
At ViVE 2024, Tarun Kapoor — chief digital transformation officer at New Jersey-based Virtua Health — highlighted a conundrum he thinks may be the reason why AI hasn’t been able to move the needle when...
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