Search Tag: Hospitals
University-of-pittsburgh-medical-center-spotlight-on-sepsis
2018 30 Dec
In 2015, UPMC a global multi-hospital system that has over 40 hospitals and 85,000 employees, began a new sepsis initiative to increase the speed of identification and treatment of sepsis patients. According to the CDC, sepsis is a major cause of preventable patient deaths in hospitals. It’s estimated one in three patients who die in hospitals...Read more
Cardiovascular-outcomes-at-top-ranked-vs-nonranked-hospitals
2018 06 Dec
A new study conducted by the US News & World Report (USNWR) top-ranked hospitals in terms of cardiovascular care and patient outcomes and compared them to nonranked hospitals. The objective of the study was to determine whether USNWR top-ranked hospitals performed better than nonranked hospitals. The performance measures that were evaluated...Read more
Noise-pollution-in-hospitals-a-growing-problem
2018 19 Nov
Noise levels in hospitals regularly exceed international recommendations, and the problem is getting worse, according to an editorial in the BMJ by a research team from King's College London and the University of the Arts London (UAL). You might also like : Music room soundproofing to reduce hospital noise Excessive noise can impact patients'...Read more
Medical-errors-is-prevention-possible
2018 21 Aug
How the Patient Safety Movement is striving for zero preventable deaths by 2020 A patient death is distressing enough, but when the cause is a lack of hospital safety culture and it could have been prevented, healthcare needs to act. Now. A health crisis across the globe is claiming over 4.8 million lives every year. It’s devastating...Read more
Managed-equipment-services-can-be-boon-for-emerging-market-health
2018 23 May
Solving the waste issue of unused equipment in African hospitals Managed Equipment Services (MES) is an innovative way of tackling the problem of wasted medical equipment stock in sub-Saharan Africa. In healthcare, the private sector is increasingly working with governments to address the needs of health systems. This collaboration...Read more
Quality-and-safety-the-role-of-the-board
2018 20 Feb
A new framework for active involvement A new framework from Health Service Executive supports hospitals in aim to improve care quality and safety. As hospitals try to drive rapid improvement, boards have an opportunity and a responsibility to make better quality of care the organisation’s top priority. This critical partnership between...Read more
Let-s-change-before-we-have-to
2018 25 Jan
The rac e is on to implement technology effectively for improved liaising and better health outcome s. Health technology can change healthcare but only with implementation of basics such as collaboration, communication and easy exchange, combined with transformation of some traditional workflows. AirBNB, TripAdvisor,...Read more
Swedish-veterinary-chain-orders-sectra-cloud-based-pacs-to-achieve-unified-solution-for-all-images
2018 10 Jan
International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra has signed a contract with Evidensia Sweden to deliver its solution for reviewing medical images, Sectra PACS . Evidensia is replacing its multiple IT solutions for imaging with a single solution in order to increase efficiency and collaboration across 54 hospitals and clinics....Read more
The-cost-of-hospital-violence
2017 08 Aug
Healthcare workers are at significant risk for workplace violence. Data shows that between 2011 and 2013, nearly 75 percent of workplace assaults took place in healthcare settings. This is among the risks that hospitals need to plan for. A new report shows that providers spend billions of dollars preparing for and responding to violence both inside...Read more
Hospital-finance-managing-in-the-current-financial-climate
2017 07 May
Alternative financing at hospital level can make a difference. In an environment of budget cuts and increasing pressure on healthcare services how does your hospital cope? In Belgium, and also I think globally, governments and other payers will not be able to keep up with expensive needs, such as an ageing population, personalised medicine,...Read more
Medicine-technology-and-humanity-intertwined-rambam-health-care-campus
2016 13 Nov
RAMBAM HEALTH CARE CAMPUS The philosophy at Rambam Health Care is medicine, technology and humanity intertwined. Please explain. Rambam is a very uniquely positioned hospital. It started in 1938 as a hospital for patients, founded by the British mandatory regime, and has grown to be a major academic hospital that includes the Faculty...Read more
Vietnamese-prime-minister-honours-vk-hospital-projects
2016 19 Aug
The Vietnamese Prime Minster, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, visited the project sites of Bach Mai 2 and Viet Duc 2 Hospitals in Phu Ly City, Ha Nam Province, last Saturday, 5th August. These two VK designed 1,000 bed hospitals are part of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s programme to provide higher quality hospital facilities for the people of Hanoi and northern...Read more
Cardiac-arrest-centres-the-fourth-link
2016 01 Aug
Treatment of cardiac arrest out of hospital has improved over the last few years. Unlike other acute conditions such as trauma few countries have implemented a regional system of cardiac arrest centres. In their review, Eldar Søreide, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway and Michael Busch, Department...Read more
Cms-hospital-star-ratings-preview
2016 26 Jul
The CMS ratings agency has released information on distribution of star ratings on hospital quality ahead of release of publishing much-anticipated overall ratings. The agency said it hoped to clarify how all kinds of hospitals can show varying quality as shown by star ratings. The CMS also said it hoped to “address any questions or concerns about...Read more
Vk-is-building-two-1-000-bed-hospitals-at-once-in-vietnam
2016 08 Jul
VK Architects & Engineers is involved in various large-scale hospital projects as designer or co-designer. The two largest projects however are situated in Vietnam : the construction sites of Bach Mai II and Viet Duc II are in full speed, with just a kilometer in between them. Both hospitals each offer 1,000 beds in 2017. The portfolio of...Read more
How-to-implement-patient-blood-management-bundles
2016 28 Jun
Guidance on how to implement patient blood management (PBM) in a hospital is provided in an article just published in Transfusion Medicine Reviews . Corresponding author Prof. Dr. Patrick Meybohm (pictured), from the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany...Read more
Esa2016-death-by-resuscitation
2016 07 Jun
When anaesthesiologist Sharon Einav took her car to be repaired on the way to hospital one day, she wondered why the mechanic was just leaning on his car. It took a while to realise he was having a heart attack, she related at Euroanaesthesia 2016 in London in May. This lack of situational awareness was an example she used to show how the chain of...Read more
It-community-leader-don-t-give-in-to-cyber-blackmailers
2016 19 Feb
The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) has disagreed with the FBI’s stance on how hospitals should deal with ransomware attacks. While last autumn the U.S. intelligence agency controversially advised organisations to give in to hacks who paralyse their IT systems and pay the ransom to regain access to information, the HITM says...Read more
Evidence-based-practice-shocking-low-implementation
2016 07 Feb
A new study reveals why healthcare organisations fall short of improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. The study is published in Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. The survey, led by Bernadette Melnyk, dean of the College of Nursing at The Ohio State University included 276 chief nurse executives across the U.S. The objective was...Read more
Antimicrobial-copper-touch-surfaces-reduce-infections-liberate-resources-and-cut-costs
2016 05 Jan
The role of the environment in the transmission of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) is increasingly recognised, requiring a new approach to the selection of materials for objects frequently touched by healthcare workers, patients and visitors that can serve as reservoirs of infection. There are many technologies and materials on the market,...Read more
Big-data-opportunities-for-healthcare-organisations
2016 05 Jan
Healthcare organisations need to make much better use of the health data that they hold and to share that use with other organisations in order to scale up their learning opportunities and improve the quality and efficiency of the healthcare they provide. At the level of the individual patient, guideline and decision support systems, notification and...Read more
Hospital-magazines-top-tips-from-an-expert
2016 05 Jan
Following HealthManagement. org's articles on blogging (La Calle et al. 2015) and tweeting (Wong and Mathieu 2015), in this issue, HealthManagement.org puts the hospital magazine in focus. Kathy Smith, Vice President of Marketing & Communications at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the quarterly publication, Johns Hopkins Health ,...Read more
Patients-recording-surgery-transparency-or-medical-trainwreck
2015 21 Dec
StatNews talks about the recent debate in healthcare over whether patients should be allowed to record their surgical procedures. Jennifer Kritz, spokesperson for Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center communicates that the number of patients who wish to record their surgeries and the stages of care such as doctor instructions and physical...Read more
Addressing-consumer-needs-in-hospitals
2015 15 Dec
Findings of a new survey show that healthcare organisations do not have sufficient understanding of consumer needs nor effective strategies to meet those needs. The survey was conducted with an unidentified number of hospital and health system executives. Ninety-six percent of the respondents said that understanding patients as consumers is very...Read more
Patient-advisory-councils-work-on-hospital-policy-with-medics
2015 07 Dec
In an effort to improve care, hospitals are inviting patients and family advisory councils to work on policies and projects along with the hospital staff. This would give them the opportunity to weigh in on matters that range from the design of hospital rooms to improving communication with nurses. They can even accompany doctors on their rounds. ...Read more
Lower-patient-satisfaction-with-nurses-trained-abroad
2015 03 Dec
A new study published in BMJ Open concludes that the employment of nurses trained abroad as a substitute for nurses educated at home presents risks to quality of care. Western countries like the U.S. and England rely on nurses trained abroad in times of shortages. This study was conducted with 12000 patients in a sample of 31 National Health Service...Read more