Medication Reconciliation Safety Concerns Linger Even With EHRs
Has the broad adoption of EHRs helped address medication reconciliation concerns? I was recently reading the ECRI Institute’s 2015 report,… read more
Alarm hazards as patient safety concern
Year after year, we’ve seen “alarm fatigue” ranked high on the ECRI Institute annual list of Top Ten Health Technology… read more
Social Connectedness & Asynchronous Secure Messaging
An Unexpected Benefit Think about what happens to most of you at work – you spend a portion of your… read more
Data Integrity as a Patient Safety Concern
In its two most recent annual lists of Top Ten Health Technology Hazards, the ECRI Institute pegged “data integrity errors… read more
Achieving Mobile Care Orchestration: How one hospital uses smartphones
Recently, I was privileged to participate in a webinar given by our development partner, Parkview Medical Center (Pueblo, CO). The… read more
4 Ways Clinical Mobility Protects Patients at your Hospital
At healthcare industry events, most of the discussions I hear typically concentrate on care quality performance and cost reduction. While… read more
Compassionate Care Part 2: Autonomy in the Acute Care Environment
This is my second blog on Press Ganey’s Compassionate Care™ model. In the last installment, I reflected on the shackles that… read more
Patient Centered Care: Is It Really That New?
Recently I gave a presentation and asked the audience – hasn’t the care we have provided always been patient centered?… read more
A Conversation on Cognitive Nursing Workload and Leveraging Technology
Nurses’ cognitive workload is a point of concern for nurse informaticist Cheryl Parker, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS. Nursing Show host Jamie… read more
Compassionate Care Part 1: Unlocking the Shackles of the Computer
I was recently re-reading Press Ganey’s Compassionate Connected Care™ model1. The concepts truly resonated with my experiences of providing direct nursing… read more