Jeff Lagasse
Two JHS employees allegedly accessed patient information without a clear job-related purpose.
Clinician burnout isn’t a new problem, but it appears to be getting worse due to factors that are inherent in today’s healthcare system.
Hospitals should obtain more valuable data insights, set performance improvement goals and better engage physicians, finds Kaufman Hall.
Prescription opioids are a major contributor to the opioid epidemic and are linked to prescription opioid abuse, addiction and overdose deaths.
Among the gaps for both types of facilities are a lack of best practices for patient care and inadequate monitoring of board certifications.
To capture revenue that would otherwise be lost, providers need to jettison ink and paper in favor more modern solutions.
Most states would see diminished capacity in their health centers unless they're able to offset the financial shortfalls.
Humana will also tap Microsoft for healthcare-tuned natural language understanding and speech recognition to improve workflows.
The four companies settled with the two Ohio counties that had brought the lawsuit, avoiding what was expected to be a bellwether trial.
Teaching hospitals posted superior outcomes, including higher 30-day mortality rates, for patients who underwent general or vascular surgery.