Fire safety in healthcare settings has always been a critical concern, demanding rigorous adherence to protocols and continuous improvement of practices. In this article, expert Lauris V. Freidenfelds, discusses updated practices for fire drills, emphasizing the necessity of...
Ensure that your laboratory design and standard operating procedures (SOP) allow for separation of clean areas and dirty areas. In this article, expert Sean G. Kaufman discusses how to best use your laboratory environment to stay safe and to promote greatest adherence to the SOP.
Medication management is a critical component of healthcare, ensuring that patients receive the right medications at the right doses, thereby enhancing patient safety and care quality. However, it comes with numerous challenges and requires continuous adaptation to regulatory changes,...
Peer review, as it applies in today’s healthcare landscape, involves the evaluation of an individual practitioner’s professional performance for all relevant competency categories. It draws from multiple sources of data and identifies opportunities to improve care. Given these important aims,...
Telehealth has grown tremendously over the past five years, in large part due to COVID-19, but also due to technological advancements. Experts believe that telehealth usage may again reach its earlier peak, but that any uptick will happen more slowly as the technology’s usability increases and...
If you’ll forgive me for going a little off topic here (yet again), there’s another resource in the world that I think is worth bringing to your attention. And while I will admit that this one is a little personal (I have two nephews who served in the Marine Corps; both of whom experienced...
Although the increasing presence of technology in the healthcare industry has boosted efficiency, communication, and accessibility to research, it is important to not undermine the inherent risks involved. The frequency and severity of cyberattacks rise, as evidenced by an infiltration of Change...
Hospitals must ensure patients are not subject to sensitive examinations while under anesthesia without providers and trainees first obtaining and documenting the patient’s informed consent, according to revised interpretive guidance released by CMS in April.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached another resolution during its ongoing effort to ensure the comprehensive enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s right of access provision.
The most recent manifestation of CMS’s intent to keep the improvements coming focuses on an expansion of the scope of onsite surveys to include all off-site locations, eliminates things like daily huddles during surveys, limits how accreditation organizations can “sell” consulting and education...
