NCSA executive director Kelvin Coleman recently spoke with HealthLeaders about the continuing threat posed by criminals who see healthcare continuing to be one of the biggest, most lucrative targets for their ever-increasing cyber-intrusion capabilities.
We knew it was going to happen eventually, but our friends in Chicago have made it official (just in time for the implementation of Daylight Savings Time—...
If there is one lesson to be taken from 2020, it’s that waiting until a problem evolves into a crisis is an exceedingly bad idea. While the world still deals with the effect of COVID-19, there are many other problems that require our attention now lest they spiral out of control—from ...
This is Brian Ward and A.J. Plunkett, editors of Patient Safety Monitor Journal and Inside Accreditation & Quality and we are looking for feedback on our newsletters: what we're doing well, what we need to improve, what topics you want more coverage of. To do that, we are...
The prolonged social isolation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has created unique challenges for psychiatric hospitals and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID) that often depend on a patient’s family, caregivers, and friends to provide...
Review your infection control plan for Ebola now that the CDC is recommending that all U.S. healthcare settings should ask about international travel while screening patients...
Consider joining forces with local or even statewide hospitals to find beds for patients during an emergency surge. The plan could improve patient care while saving precious resources like money, manpower, and staff energy when setting up alternate care sites.