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On the Road to Recovery – Using Comprehensive Healthcare Event Reporting to Reduce Medical Errors
In March 2019, a Tennessee woman filed suit against Nashville-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, claiming surgeons operated on her wrong...
Bouncing Back from a Hospital Safety Penalty
In December of last year, the federal government penalized 751 hospitals for having high numbers of patient injuries, retroactively reducing their...
Quality Improvement Performance Indicators: Prioritizing Your Data
In a recent blog post, the Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality shed some light on an area of concern for many hospitals: the prioritization...
Is Your Quality-Safety System Really a Do-it-Yourself Project? Should it be?
We frequently describe ActionCue Clinical Intelligence as redefining and facilitating the management process for quality-safety improvement....
Re-Thinking: Four Ways to Advance Healthcare Quality and Safety
For decades, I practiced and taught others a model of developing new software products in which the creator begins with at least two innovation...
Healthcare Innovation, Leadership and Action—Part 4
In a recent webinar for our ActionCue clients, Prista’s panel of experts answered questions about healthcare innovation and the role of leadership...
Healthcare Innovation, Leadership and Action—Part 3
In a recent webinar for our ActionCue clients, Prista’s panel of experts answered questions about healthcare innovation and the role of leadership...
Healthcare Innovation, Leadership and Action—Part 2
In a recent webinar for our ActionCue clients, Prista’s panel of experts answered questions about healthcare innovation and the role of leadership...