Search Tag: health care
2023 30 Aug
Fast growing integrated health care and social organisation present a challenge due to the increased complexity of its operations. To manage the services at scale while remaining a patient-centred organisation, new tools need to be incorporated to assist members in their decision making and care quality measurement. Key Points Defining...Read more
2023 14 Jul
The AHA Leadership Summit, the American Hospital Association's premier educational event for hospital and health system leaders, will take place between July 16 – 18. The summit will bring together a diverse community of visionary leaders and provide a platform for exchanging ideas, sharing knowledge, and learning from different approaches and perspectives....Read more
2023 26 May
Team functioning and communication play a critical role in clinician and physician well-being, and constitute major aspects of a healthy workplace culture. The electronic health record (EHR) affects communication, well-being, and teamwork. This paper tries to layout the interplay between the electronic health record (EHR), health care team relations,...Read more
2023 27 Mar
Technological innovations today — regardless of industry — are largely intended to save time, increase efficiency and ultimately improve outcomes for businesses and consumers. The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care is an important example of how the merger of innovation and medicine is making an impact for providers and patients...Read more
2023 10 Feb
According to a new report by The Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. spends more on health care than most other high-income countries, yet they suffer from having the highest rate of people with multiple chronic diseases and lowest life expectancy at birth. Next to other countries, people in the U.S. see doctors less often due to an array of factors,...Read more
2020 17 Sep
Patient And Health Worker Safety Advocates Will Walk From Freedom Plaza To The U.S. Capitol To Kick Off World Patient Safety Day Activities Today, the nonpartisan nonprofit Patient Safety Movement Foundation will lead a demonstration in the nation’s capital to raise awareness for the patient safety crisis that claims more than 200,000 lives annually...Read more
2018 31 Jul
Lean is an improvement philosophy made famous by the Toyota Motor Company. In the last decade and a half, Lean thinking was extended to healthcare. It must be emphasised that Lean is not all about a set of guidelines that if complied with, will predictably result in better health delivery. Successful Lean implementation requires "immense institutional...Read more