Arkenea

JUNE 23, 2025

But what exactly is RAG in healthcare, and more importantly, how can your organization implement it successfully while maintaining HIPAA compliance and ensuring patient safety?

Documentation

Practice Index

JULY 3, 2025

We’re yet another document into the NHS plan. So far, we’ve had the NHS Long-Term Plan, the Darzi report, the Patient Safety Strategy, the Long-Term Workforce Plan, amongst others. Having read the plan, there isn’t a massive amount of detail on what this looks like. Or is this appointment in your pocket via AI?

Appointments

Relias

MAY 7, 2025

The Beryl Institute, a global community of healthcare professionals and experience champions, defines patient experience as the sum of all interactions, shaped by an organizations culture, that influence patient perceptions across the continuum of care.

Patient Experience

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 16, 2025

Daily Dive M-F Payer Weekly Every Wednesday IT Weekly Every Thursday By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Much time is spent manually updating and filling out clinical documentation, which can be automated. Sign up A valid email address is required. Follow the changes here.

Patient Care

Relias

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These attributes (and others) can translate to greater improvements in patient safety. Transformational leadership is especially effective in health care because it emphasizes teamwork and everyone’s ability to step up as a leader when needed. What is transformational leadership?

Patient Safety

Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Patient Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , is the perfect time to review the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals. For 2023, its list of patient safety goals for hospitals includes the following: Identify patients correctly.

Patient Safety

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A new grad nurse tells the story of a preceptor who seems determined to sabotage her orientation period, assuredly setting her up for failure and job loss. Other nurses follow the bully’s lead when it comes to treating this nurse with disrespect. These statements are sadly true, and the problem is too well documented to ignore.

Patient Satisfaction

Relias

JUNE 6, 2024

Key competencies and attributes of nurse leaders include the following: Understands the correlation between a strong team and high levels of patient quality and safety. Encourages feedback and works to solve problems related to patient care, patient safety, budget, and staffing.

Unit Organization and Environment

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2022) estimated over 100,000 registered nurses left the profession and predicted that another 800,000 nurses would follow them by 2027. The top reasons reported for leaving were burnout, feeling undervalued, and a high patient-to-nurse ratio.

Patient Care

Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Documentation in the medical record.

Hospice

Relias

APRIL 28, 2023

Repeated pressure exposure on the same area will result in the degradation of the skin’s integrity, literally opening the skin up to infection. Caregivers can take action to prevent pressure sores in older clients and avoid negative outcomes that can follow. All such checks should be documented as well.

Long Term Care

Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Shelise Valentine, RNC, MSN, C-EFM, CPPS, CPHRM, is the Director of Clinical Education, Healthcare Risk Advisors, part of TDC Group and chairs nursing, co-chairs obstetric and simulation initiatives, and directs risk management and obstetric education for insured hospital clients to improve patient safety and reduce malpractice risk.

Unit Organization and Environment

DropStat

APRIL 15, 2024

Nurses must perform “safety event reporting,” also called an “unusual occurrence report” or “variance report,” whenever there is: a new adverse event (e.g., a medical error or patient injury) a new awareness about an existing event (e.g., to improve patient safety) a near miss (e.g.,

Patient Safety

DropStat

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Language barriers in healthcare prevent or hinder some healthcare stakeholders from reaching out for healthcare , and when they are in a healthcare setting, it may prevent the patient from understanding their healthcare situation and how to follow healthcare protocol.

Unit Organization and Environment

Relias

MARCH 5, 2025

However, as its use expands, so do the challenges of ensuring patient safety, regulatory compliance, and ethical administration. Providers who fail to follow the proper guidelines for care risk not only putting their patients at risk but also face fines, lawsuits, and loss of licensure.

Patient Safety

Coronis Health

AUGUST 31, 2023

These tools speed up the coding process and increase accuracy and efficiency. It improves patient safety – proper coding helps assess a patient’s health, identify issues in healthcare quality, and influence new and changing health policies. Accurate coding means getting reimbursed promptly.

Hospital

Medical Advantage

JULY 17, 2024

With information coming from multiple sources, EHRs offer a more comprehensive view of a patient’s health. Through EHRs, all authorized providers involved in a patient’s care can access up-to-date and accurate information, facilitating coordinated and efficient care.

EHR / EMR

Valant

MARCH 20, 2024

Metrics such as rate of improved treatment outcomes, patient satisfaction scores, and adherence to clinical guidelines offer insights into the effectiveness of care provided. Inconsistencies in follow-up care and in treatment adherence can also indicate potential variations in the quality of care delivered.

Billing

Valant

JULY 5, 2024

Streamlined intake processes not only improve patient satisfaction but also boost operational efficiency, allowing staff to focus their time and attention on delivering high-quality care. Efficient intake procedures can minimize wait times, reduce paperwork errors, and boost patient satisfaction.

Patient Satisfaction

MedCerts

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Additionally, 2-5% of the exam includes the following question types: Hotspot Items With hotspot question types, you can interact with a graphic that contains clickable areas, or "hotspots," as answer choices and select the correct spot on the figure by clicking on it. Candidates have four hours to complete the examination.

Sterilization

Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The resources, from the Londonwide Local Medical Committees, deal with threats to the safety of staff and risks to patient safety from overworked staff. The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. There would also be an expansion of “self-referral” for some patients.

Huddles/Rounds

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider automating administrative tasks from patient scheduling appointment, supporting clinical decision making based on patient data across the continuum of care and regardless of site of care, easing clinical documentation, and providing real-time understanding of risks and areas for improvement.

Unit Organization and Environment

Relias

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These components will enable IHS and its partner organizations to streamline their clinical and administrative workflows, enhance their data collection and analysis, improve their coordination and collaboration with other healthcare providers, and provide patients better access to their health information.

Collaboration

DropStat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The importance of nurses educating patients is well known and documented in studies showing that patient education results in greater patient compliance and leads to better health outcomes. Moreover, healthcare is increasingly shifting towards patient- and consumer-centered healthcare.

Patient Education

Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

AHRQ defined each of the domains as follows: Safe — avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them. Using this model, aspects of quality fall into one of the following three classifications: Structural measures — How well do a healthcare organization’s capacity, systems, and processes support high-quality care?

Follow-Up

Minority Nurse

JANUARY 12, 2023

There is anecdotal evidence that Millennial nurses are much more adept at standing up for themselves and refusing overtime, extra shifts, or coming in to work when they have a planned day off. Unfortunately, this is a boundary that many nurses ignore at the peril of their licenses, their mental well-being, and patient safety.

Communication

Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enhanced Patient Care Patients can get annoyed by long waiting hours and freeing up time for appointments. It increases patient engagement as they actively participate in scheduling appointments online, tracking their health, getting prescription refills, and eliminating transportation costs.

HIPAA

Ciox

AUGUST 3, 2023

This automation reduces administrative workload for healthcare staff, freeing up valuable time that can be redirected towards patient care, ultimately improving operational efficiency. This optimization of medication management enhances patient safety and prevents costly adverse drug events.

Unit Organization and Environment

Scrubs

AUGUST 23, 2023

From the latest infectious disease to proper sanitation and patient safety, every piece of information is crucial. Nurses spend more time with patients than any other type of healthcare provider. Butternut squash Kale White potatoes Carrots 9 / 34 Which of the following statements is incorrect with regard to wearing gloves?

Tests

Relias

AUGUST 29, 2022

Healthcare providers must deliver the highest quality of care within their legal ability do so, but alternative protocols and courses of action may need to be developed quickly to ensure patient safety. In addition, community organizations, termed “ safety net providers ,” can help support patients who need assistance.

Follow-Up

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

Maternal mortality is closely linked to social and behavioral factors As documented extensively, higher U.S. Managing gaps in mental health services by expanding the scope of services offered, increasing training on mental health for all staff, and reviewing documentation practices can also help.

Hospital

A Young Doctor's Journey

APRIL 17, 2025

I first learned about the importance of documentation during a clinical rotation; one of the old nurses admonished a newer grad nurse that "if it's not documented, it wasn't done." To get links to my favorite podcasts about the importance of documentation, scroll straight to the bottom of this blog post.

Documentation

The HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2025

It is common for medical records to be overlaid, where multiple patients records are merged into a single record. This can result in an unauthorized disclosure of health data that is prohibited under HIPAA, and more seriously, can put patient safety at risk. The Act has now been reintroduced in the 119th Congress.

HIPAA