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• How IT Can Support Patient Safety In A Surgical Setting

  10/7/2019

  Twenty years ago, the Institute of Medicine published its seminal Consensus Report on patient safety, “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System.” That report noted that almost 100,000 annual deaths resulted from preventable medical errors and called for greater exploration of technology to reduce medical errors.

• Is It Time To Get Away From The Idea Of “Patient Experience”?

  11/5/2020

  For the last 20 years, the healthcare industry has been slowly shifting from fee-for-service to value-based care. We’ve seen the advent of the triple aim, the quadruple aim, pay-for-performance, and ACOs. All of this in an attempt to move from paying for healthcare based on quantity to paying for quality and outcomes. In the meantime, we’ve also seen a rise in consumerism and a focus on patient experience. And we tie those to the goals of value-based care. But the very word experience suggests we are still thinking about healthcare as episodic, and episodic care is susceptible to massive disruptions like those we’ve seen with COVID-19.

• The Creative Intersection Of Medicine And IT

  8/8/2014

  Medicine is not often thought of as a creative industry. We focus instead on science and evidence.  Behind the science is a group of driven individuals who are focused on problem solving.

• LED Automation For Increased Efficiency And Patient Well-Being In Healthcare Facilities

  10/23/2018

  Hospitals and healthcare facilities are meant to be a place of healing and recuperation which is why thousands of dollars are poured into creating the best patient environment. Hospitals have the unique challenge of meeting very rigorous sanitation, safety and comfort standards which, if not met, can impact the well-being of patients and the efficiency of staff.

• Maybe Healthcare Needs A Quadruple Aim?

  9/2/2016

  The IHI Triple Aim is a framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement that describes an approach to optimizing health system performance. The framework’s intent seeks a simultaneous pursuit of improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction); improving the health of populations; and reducing the per capita cost of health care. By Danielle Miller, PHD(c), MSN, RNC-OB Chief Nursing Officer, Clinical Applications

• Banks And Innovative IT: Healthcare's New Power Couple

  11/29/2016

  Banks have traditionally played a critical role in serving the healthcare industry. They are payment aggregators, digital and paper lockboxes, data normalizers, systems of record, and more. By Deborah Theobald, CEO, Vecna