Quality & Patient Safety

A group of cybersecurity experts, representing everyone from NASA to academic medicine, formed a committee targeting the small but potentally lethal threat in which a hacker takes control of a medical device, an act known by some as “medjacking.” The Cybersecurity Standard for Connected…
Health care executives and boards no longer can lead with only one organization in mind. Value-based payment, along with a renewed emphasis on developing healthy communities, makes care coordination among community providers in multiple entities a necessity.
Hospitals and health systems are extending their efforts to embrace environmental sustainability, especially when it comes to energy consumption, according to the 2015 Health Facilities Management Sustainable Operations Survey conducted with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering and the…
“The Association Between Patient and Family Engagement Practices and Patient Experience” is a slide presentation that covers the findings of a 2013–2014 survey conducted by the Health Research & Educational Trust and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The survey examined patient and family…
What’s your blood pressure? Do you check it yourself at home? Terrific, if you do! But how do you know if your device is reading your pressure accurately? And how do you know if you are actually using it correctly? As we all see every day, medical technology is not only increasingly embedded…
A 30 percent reduction in the effectiveness of antibiotics could increase infections and associated deaths for certain U.S. surgical and chemotherapy patients by 120,000 and 6,300 per year, respectively, finds a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Antibiotic stewardship programs andf improved…
“Interoperability” has been a technology buzzword for a while now. But, what does it really mean? Simply defined, interoperability is the ability of computer systems to “talk” to one another and easily share information. It is especially critical now as more and more of our…
Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Many health systems are operating venture funds or other formal mechanisms for developing and commercializing innovations. Their motivations for developing innovations are to improve their own operations and create new…
Getting there is half the fun, right? Keep that in mind this holiday season, all of you who will be loading the family jalopy with unruly kids, rambunctious pets, more baggage than you even knew you owned and every flashy distraction Silicon Valley has yet to devise. The ride to Grandma’s…
Health care must become more diverse in its leadership, governance and staff, and it must work hard to eliminate disparities in care. Here’s why: Changing America: • Half of all children in the U.S. will be nonwhite by 2020 • The majority of the population will be nonwhite by 2044