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3 Ways to Expand Community, Patient Engagement

Advisory councils or boards can play an integral role in engaging the voice of the patient to help shape changes from providers and health plans. But some organizations are going a step further.

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Innovative Rural Hospitals Think Beyond Tradition to Improve Access to Care

Whether it’s drones delivering medications or nurses driving virtual care on wheels, rural hospitals are innovating to close the gap between providers and patients.

Data-Driven Initiative Drives Down Disparities in Rural Health Care

Identifying the underlying factors that contribute to disparities in outcomes in vulnerable rural populations and developing strategies to address these issues remain constant challenges, but progress is being made. OSF Healthcare’s Health Equities Action Lab (HEAL) is employing a data-driven strategy to address breast cancer disparity outcomes among its Illinois patients, 65% of whom live in rural areas.
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Top 4 Takeaways from New AHA Safety Insights Report

The newly released Insights Report, “Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Staff Outcomes,” highlights progress on additional outcome measures of patient safety including some that reflect the ongoing work led by nurses to protect patients.

Generative AI Market in Health Care Gains Momentum

Staffing shortages, rising costs, efforts to reduce administrative burden on clinicians and other factors are leading many health care providers to generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. These solutions address providers’ concerns by boosting the speed and accuracy of key workflows, improving the efficiency of high-volume tasks while reducing the workload for overburdened staff, notes a recent CB Insights report.
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Walgreens’ Move to Go Private: 4 Key Takeaways

While financial and retail analysts continue to evaluate the implications of Walgreens Boots Alliance’s recent agreement to be taken private by Sycamore Partners, many important questions loom.

Rural Hospitals Move to Enhance Cybersecurity

More than 550 rural hospitals have joined the Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program, a partnership created last year by the American Hospital Association (AHA) and Microsoft to provide free and heavily discounted cybersecurity services.
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4 Steps to Improve Medical Device Recall Tracking

As of late February, there were 147 medical device recall events and 20 of them, or 13.6%, were Class I, according to a Modern Healthcare report.
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3 Takeaways from Cleveland Clinic’s AI Scribe Pilot Process and System Selection

On Feb. 19, the organization announced that it would roll out Ambience Healthcare’s AI platform for documentation, clinical documentation integrity and point-of-care coding.