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Healthcare IT News
Many healthcare organizations are working to improve patient safety but serious challenges remain. Medical errors are among the leading causes of death in the U.S. and nonlethal harm occurs even more frequently – at a rate 10 to 20 times higher than deaths, according to The Journal of Patient Safety. A big part of the problem is the fact that determining exactly where to focus patient improvement efforts is a difficult, if not a daunting decision for most organizations.
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American College of Surgeons via Medical Xpress
A patient safety team has restructured their protocols for treating airway failure in such a way that the change has measurably improved staff confidence to handle airway emergencies and can serve as a model for other health systems. These changes came when the team at Hackensack Meridian Health encountered a serious safety event last year when a breathing tube failed and a patient required an emergency operation. About 10 percent of the life-threatening events that occur in hospitals involve problems with keeping patients' breathing airway functional, the researchers explained.
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PharmaTimes
The use of smartphones and tablet devices in healthcare has generated much interest recently, with a rise in related apps changing the way that patients and healthcare professionals interact. Increasing numbers of healthcare professionals are using these technologies in the workplace, as well as large numbers of consumers, who are now more connected than ever to such apps that can help diagnose and improve symptoms, as well as boost drug compliance.
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Healthcare IT News
While many hospitals and medical groups are exploring artificial and machine learning, Hill Physicians Medical Group in San Ramon, California, has already reaped noteworthy results using the technologies to advance value-based care work. "The efficiencies we've gained have allowed us to increase the number of charts collected by more than 200 percent," said Jennifer Pereur, director of government programs at Hill Physicians Medical Group.
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Healthcare Learning Innovations’ Digital Nursing Assignments provide students with a safe environment to sharpen skills before and after they work with manikins or patients in clinical rotations. They practice and perfect acuity assessment, care prioritization, patient management and delegation, and care planning in settings such as the ER and ICU, in specialties including pediatrics and mental health.
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Kitsap Sun
Laurell Sprague dabbed a few finishing touches on the hand of volunteer "victim" Linda Tsubaki.
Tsubaki proudly displayed the masterpiece: her hand minus fingers, the bony stumps jagged, dripping with "blood."
The small but intent audience gave gasps of disgust and admiration.
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Healio
Researchers identified first-episode drug-naive schizophrenia patients with an accuracy of 78.6 percent and predicted their responses to antipsychotic treatment with an 82.5 percent accuracy at the individual level using machine-learning algorithms and the functional connections of the superior temporal cortex, according to study findings.
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VR Focus
There are a number of applications for virtual reality in the medical field. Many of which are tied to training of medical students, or involving new ways to map and visualize medical conditions, which can often be complex. This application combines both. At Lucile Packard Children’s hospital, Stanford pediatric cardiologist David Axelrod is able to use a VR simulation to model heart defects in patients.
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Laerdal Medical
If you’re thinking simulation, what’s the right level of fidelity for you? The answer depends on your training objectives, the experience level of your learners, and your budget. Task trainers, standardized patients, hybrid simulation, and high-fidelity simulators all have their place. This article will help you make the best choice to improve maternal outcomes. Read more
Reuters
Gender disparities in medical careers - in position, pay and publishing - start early, but even small systemic changes in training programs could begin to narrow these gaps, says a group of Harvard Medical School doctors. They noticed a difference at their hospital in how often male and female trainee doctors, known as residents, were recognized by the training program for achievements like having an article published or receiving an award.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists® and CAE Healthcare bring simulation to you with Anesthesia SimSTAT! Practicing physicians will experience high-fidelity scenarios in a virtual environment to help improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies while fulfilling continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part II and IV requirements.
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Mastery Learning is a form of competency-based medical education. Use of the model has been shown to improve patient care quality and lower health care costs. This five day hands on course will equip you with the skills to develop mastery learning curricula for procedures, communication and team based clinical skills.
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Rutgers University, Camden
In a simulation suite in the new Nursing and Science building, students in a Rutgers School of Nursing‒Camden class are learning to work with patients and help prevent suicides. Using standardized patients, trained actors play the role of someone who may be at risk of taking their own life. “The standardized patients are an opportunity for students to practice not only the suicide assessment but how to therapeutically communicate with patients and be comfortable being present with them,” says Mary Wunnenberg, an assistant clinical professor at the Rutgers School of Nursing‒Camden.
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This intensive immersion in healthcare simulation is led by experienced educators and covers all high-level elements and concepts involved in running a program. Learn more.
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Smithsonian
It’s distressing for the patient and perhaps even more distressing for the parents: your child needs a blood test, but the phlebotomist has trouble locating his tiny veins, and is forced to stick him again and again. Researchers at Rutgers University say they may have found the solution: a “venipuncture robot.” The robot uses a combination of near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to find blood vessels, then creates a 3-D image of the vessels before sticking the patient with a needle.
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Kent McAllister
How you can know. This is not a question; it is a statement. Albeit, it is the appropriate question to ask in most industries where any management discipline is applied. Let’s examine patient experience and how you can know what is actually happening from the patient’s perspective in your health system.
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