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Driven by concerns about the many risks social media poses, the healthcare industry has been slower than others in adopting social media. However, the rate of adoption has increased in the past two to three years. As of October 2011, more than 1,000 hospitals have recognized the benefits in improved community outreach and are actively using social networking tools, according to ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit in Plymouth Meeting, PA, that researches approaches to improving patient care.
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No one wants to sit through another boring education video, so Long Beach (CA) Memorial Medical Center decided to lighten things up with their fall prevention video.
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The risk manager at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles declined to be interviewed about the incident in which a temporary employee posted patient information on Facebook, but the parent company, Providence Health & Services, provided this statement:
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These are some key findings from the Second Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security released recently by The Ponemon Institute in Traverse City, MI.:
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Administrators from all hospitals with reported events indicated that they rely on incident reporting systems to capture a large portion of the information about events that they use to conduct patient safety improvement activities, but they are not capturing most errors, according to a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Risk managers should have an active role in purchasing and managing insurance, says R. Stephen Trosty, JD, MHA, CPHRM, president of Risk Management Consulting in Haslett, MI, and a former insurance company executive.
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Fall prevention efforts usually target those thought most likely to fall, but does that leave the other patients at risk if no one is paying attention to their potential for falling? A special focus on high risk patients doesn't have to shortchange others, says Pamela E. Toto, PhD, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA, an occupational therapist at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
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Who wouldn't want to replicate a falls prevention program that cuts falls 46%? If you want the same results, here are some tips from Christine Waszynski, APRN, a geriatric nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist in the geriatrics program who works with the Fall Prevention-Safety Monitor Volunteer Program at Hartford (CT) Hospital:
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News: A 2-year-old patient presented to the emergency department (ED) with a high fever, skin discoloration, and weakness. Despite her parent's numerous requests for treatment, the patient waited for five hours before being evaluated by medical staff. By the time she was evaluated, her condition had worsened. She was flown to another hospital, where she was diagnosed with septic shock.
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To avoid being overcharged on load premiums, you have to ask the right questions and provide the data showing why you deserve better than the typical load for your area.
