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Hospitals participating in Hospital Engagement Networks (HENs) are reporting improvements in patient safety and decreases in falls and adverse events.
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Physicians Practice, the practice management resource for physicians and medical office staff, has released the latest issue of its free tablet application, available from the App Store.
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A patient underwent a colonoscopy last year during which he says he was mocked by staff members who said he had syphilis and discussed firing a gun up his rectum, according to Courthouse News Service.
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The patient, a 48-year-old man, was admitted to a medical center seeking treatment in September 2009. The patient was diagnosed with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), a condition in which the body begins to destroy its own red blood cells quickly.
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One lesson that came out of UnitedHealthcares (UHC) Health Engagement Network (HEN) is that hospital administrators and also front-line personnel might have heard enough about that old quality chestnut called best practices.
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Sociologists are professionally nosy, and Ksenia Gorgenko, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and Joanna Brooks, PhD, MBioethics, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard, were happy to wander around hospitals asking doctors and other providers, as well as administrators and executives, about quality improvement (QI) efforts.
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According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, were getting better at delivering healthcare.
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Theres a thing in science called the observation effect, where the very act of observing something changes the outcome. Is it possible that something similar is happening with cardiac patients?
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Surgical patients have one less thing to worry about when they go into the hospital now: There is a much lower likelihood of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in either legs or lungs for those who get preventive treatment based on appropriate risk assessment prior to surgery, and a quick return to walking after.
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When the CEO of Virginia Commonwealth Universitys health system said he wanted to be the safest health system in America, six years ago, he wasnt just talking.
