Healthcare leaders should develop patient safety strategies around people and organizational culture, according to research by Hogan Assessment Systems. In an e-book, “First, Do No Harm,” Hogan ...

Thirteen of Baptist Health’s ASCs have earned recognition from The Leapfrog Group, a designation that signals strong performance on patient safety and quality measures at a time when ASCs are caring ...

In November, all seven Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare hospitals received “A” safety grades from The Leapfrog Group for the second time. Since 2019, the health system has reduced hospital-acquired ...

When Ghazala Sharieff, MD, chief medical and operations officer of San Diego-based Scripps Health, first took over quality in January 2020, one of her first tasks was to improve all of their hospitals ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services remains acutely focused on patient harm and will introduce new measures addressing patient safety later this year, agency leaders said at an event in ...

This study examines the use of Red Rules in patient safety culture. The presence of a strong culture of patient safety has become a critical component in reducing medical errors. Some hospitals are ...

PubMed Central® (PMC), the archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM), recently released a ...

The role of technology in prioritizing patient safety is becoming increasingly apparent. Research is emerging around the capability of machine learning (ML) to potentially reduce medical alert fatigue ...

Quiq reports that voice AI in healthcare enhances efficiency and access, reducing costs and no-shows while improving patient satisfaction through accurate scheduling and compliance.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Electronic alerts and other technology-based aids may help prevent costly missed or delayed diagnoses, according to a new review of past evidence. "I think there's a ...

Healthcare organizations are struggling to sufficiently protect patient privacy. Although detecting the inappropriate access of protected health information (PHI) is required by HIPAA, it's nearly ...