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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...
Eliminating Hospital Acquired Infections
Hand-hygiene helps. But, studies show hospital workers wash their hands less frequently by end of workday A few weeks back we talked about how...
Top 14 Healthcare Stories of 2014
1) Healthcare.gov Gets Clean Bill Of Health… Kind Of. Few health stories in 2013 captured as much news coverage and attention than the launch of the...
Alarm Fatigue — Do You Have It?
I know you can relate to this situation. You're walking through a parking lot when suddenly a car alarm starts going off and doesn't stop, and (I'm...
How can Health IT increase scheduled patient visits?
Researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and Kaiser Permanente Northwest’s Center for Health Research argue in an article published...
Wikipedia tracking helps with disease prediction
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say that tracking Wikipedia page views can forecast the spread of influenza and dengue...
Evidence-based protocols drive quality improvement
An article published in FierceHelathcare’s eBook “Systemwide Transformations that Improve Healthcare Quality and Efficiency.” argues the best way to...
5 ways to reduce hospital-acquired infections
Photo source: http://globalhandwashing.org Hospital-acquired infections are a serious issue. Resulting in loss of lives and increased hospital...