Patient Safety Best Practices E-Book: The Intersection of Patient Care and Technology

Summary

Patient safety is a top concern for healthcare organizations. Fortunately, health IT assists leadership and frontline clinicians in the ongoing effort to improve patient care. This e-book comprises ten articles outlining the intersection of technology and patient care, highlighting how organizations can implement patient safety best practices.

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Getting to the bottom of all-cause harm is critical for hospitals and health systems working to both improve patient care and protect the bottom line. Technology is a vital part of that improvement. “Patient Safety, Health IT and Getting to the Bottom of All-Cause Harm: 10 Articles at the Intersection of Patient Care and Technology,” an e-book from Becker’s Hospital Review, delivers insights about how healthcare organizations are leveraging the power of data and technology to improve patient safety and provide better care.

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Don’t miss success stories, strategies, and best practice recommendations:

  • Improving patient safety through technology that detects risk for safety events in advance, giving clinicians time to intervene.
  • How hospitals are reducing readmissions.
  • Mitigating the patient safety, clinical, and business risks of nurse overtime and burnout.
  • Enhancing early warning systems in labor and delivery departments and reducing maternal mortality and morbidity with artificial intelligence.
  • Easing the pain of data integration for hospitals and medical manufacturers as master data management becomes a necessity.

In the final article, Stan Pestotnik, MS, RPh, senior vice president of product development at Health Catalyst, discusses all-cause harm reporting and issues with measurement.

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Additional Reading

Would you like to learn more about this topic? Here are some articles we suggest:

  1.  Survey Shows the Role of Technology in the Progress of Patient Safety
  2. Healthcare Safety Culture: A Seven-Step Success Framework
  3. Meaningful Machine Learning Visualizations for Clinical Users: A Framework
  4. Analytics Drive Lean Processes to Lower Healthcare-associated Infections
  5. A Framework for High-Reliability Organizations in Healthcare