Today’s healthcare system is hallmarked by complexity, with automation growing more and more present. In the pharmacy, robotics and other automation systems now help us maintain inventories, dispense medications, and reduce time, cost, and errors. Because medicine cannot operate through these...
In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of breaking news items posted on the Accreditation & Quality Compliance Centersince Inside Accreditation & Quality was last published.
We aren’t out of the COVID-19 woods yet, but the healthcare community is already looking at what steps everyone can take for a safer environment. From infection prevention and control, to cleaning and disinfecting practices, to new and improved cleaning products, there’s a myriad of ways...
The COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed more than 660,000 lives in the U.S. has also cut aggregate life expectancy here by more than 9 million years, according to a study published Monday in ...
Cleveland Clinic has robust coaching programs for the Cleveland-based health system’s physicians.
Coaching programs can help health systems address physician wellbeing and retention. The coaching programs at Cleveland Clinic are credited with helping the health system avoid $84 million in...
The Board of Commissioners at The Joint Commission (TJC) has appointed Jonathan B. Perlin. MD, as the accrediting organization’s next president and CEO, effective March 1, 2022.
Perlin currently is the president and clinical operations and chief medical officer at HCA...
While it is always my intent to be amazingly timely in posting things, sometimes items that I’ve earmarked for sharing end up languishing in my draft emails folder. And, as I was...
Clinical laboratories surveyed under HFAP standards in 2020 showed improvements over the top deficiencies identified in earlier years, in a time when “clinical laboratories in all settings managed high testing volumes, demand for rapid turnaround times, and supply chain constraints related to...
If COVID-19 cases are rising in your area again and you’re seeking a fresh look at your pandemic response plan, download the free patient surge preparedness checklist by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
IHI also has just released a set of recommendations titled “ ‘...
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted workforce shortages at health systems and hospitals across the country. On Sept. 1, the American Nurses Association ...
