What You Should Know: Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. As the CEO of CalmWave, Inc., Ophir Ronen is an expert in both patient outcomes and staff retention who understands the importance of leveraging AI technologies to reduce alarm fatigue and deliver more efficient quiet care. Delivering Efficient Care by Reducing Alarm Fatigue Alarm fatigue is
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Chiefy Raises $4.2M to Build a Culture of Trust in Surgery
What You Should Know: - Chiefy, a NYC-based cloud platform that helps surgical teams seamlessly embed quality and communication best practices, today announced it has raised $4.2M in seed funding led by LionBird, with participation from Nina Capital and Emerge Ventures. - The company plans to use the seed funding to accelerate and expand product development and customer acquisition. Get Surgical Teams Aligned Globally, over 300 million surgeries are performed each year, and
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4medica’s EMPI Platform Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
What You Should Know: 4medica®, a healthcare data quality and matching technology company, today announced that the 4medica Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace.Built on Google Cloud’s Healthcare API, 4medica’s EMPI offers healthcare organizations access to a highly scalable data management services such as referential matching and identity enrichment. Impact of Poor Healthcare Data Quality Far
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CareRev Expands Flexible Healthcare Staffing into Delaware
What You Should Know: CareRev, a technology platform reimagining healthcare staffing by connecting hospitals and health systems with local nurses and other healthcare professionals for daily shifts, announced its expansion into Delaware with a partnership with Beebe Healthcare.Beebe will utilize CareRev’s technology to identify and hire qualified local Delaware talent to support their full-time hospital staff and ultimately improve patient safety and outcomes. Staffing managers at Beebe
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17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity
Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened. We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity. Staffing levels
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Intermountain Study Finds Follow-Up Care with Medication, Testing After Heart Attack Can Prevent 94% of Patients from Having Second Cardiac Event or Death
What You Should Know: - A recent study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that following up a cardiac event, such as a heart attack, with a statin prescription and cholesterol-measuring blood test, prevents 94% of patients from having or dying from a second cardiovascular event during the next three years. - Having one cardiac event, like a heart attack or stroke, puts a person at high risk of having a second one. One in five people who have a heart
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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers. Our conversations with these healthcare leaders have provided greater insight into their organizations’ technology and business strategies. It has also illuminated their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. Here are
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How Hospitals Can Safely & Effectively Continue Patient Care Amid Rising Cybersecurity Risks
The world we live in is becoming increasingly integrated, and as it does, the amount of data also increases. It is estimated that 2.5 quintillion bytes – that’s 2,500,00,00,000 million, for perspective – are created, captured, and shared every day, and experts predict that number will grow exponentially in the coming years. Estimates show that the healthcare industry generates about 30% of the world’s data volume. That number is expected to reach a compound annual growth rate of 36% within the
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Steps for Preventing Medical Malpractice Risks
Doctors and other healthcare professionals are entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding the health and well-being of their patients, ensuring they receive the highest quality of care. While healthcare professionals are expected to provide a certain standard of care, any deviation from that standard that results in harm or injury to a patient may leave them exposed to a medical malpractice claim. The consequences of medical malpractice can be severe, and in some cases, can result in
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ECRI Names Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023
What You Should Know: - The pediatric mental health crisis is named the number one patient safety concern, according to ECRI’s 2023 list of most pressing patient safety concerns. - The nation’s largest nonprofit patient safety organization notes that, while rates of depression and anxiety in children have increased since 2017, the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the situation to crisis levels. Here are
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