Hospitals often champion high-reliability principles, yet overlook one of their most risk-sensitive disciplines: environmental services. EVS operates in clinical environments where a single missed ...

At the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 17, Charles “Chuck” D. Stokes, MHA, COO, and Michael Shabot, MD, CMO of Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, discussed ...

The past two decades have seen astounding changes in how the health care industry handles the volume of data being captured and used for clinical care and research. Many changes have been enabled by ...

As OhioHealth came out of the coronavirus pandemic, its quality and safety team decided there was a need to do an entire reset across the health system. OhioHealth has made becoming a high-reliability ...

Over the past decade, healthcare organizations have increasingly adopted high-reliability organization principles to improve patient safety. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a component ...

The Cincinnati-based health system's new chief clinical officer wants to create a culture of safety and stability. The new chief clinical officer of UC Health is looking forward to helping the ...

How can systems be designed to guard against unexpected downtime? How does system reliability impact product development? In what ways can artificial intelligence and machine learning improve system ...