Presented at the Health Informatics Conference 2016, Melbourne Australia.
Adrian Saunders ADON, St Andrew’s Hospital
James Kollias MBBS FRACS MD CCPU
Ken Saman CEO, Personify Care
Free book on patient safety by Dr Aniruddha Malpani
Medical errors can be a nightmare – both for patients, and for doctors. However, this is one of those topics which we prefer to sweep under the carpet, because it can be so emotionally charged.
This book provides a holistic overview of medical errors from multiple perspectives. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, insurers and patients themselves all need to work together to promote patient safety.
Starting with the basics as to why medical errors are still so common, this book highlights what needs to be done to keep patients safe. Reading this book may help to save your life, or that of a loved one. If you are a patient, please read it before you go to the doctor . If you are a doctor, please read it before you see your next patient !
To recognize The National Patient Safety Foundation's Patient Safety Awareness Week #PSAW2015 we asked our colleagues in the Harvard medical community to complete this sentence: "Patient safety is..."
Here are some of their responses.
Patricia Sellars Frith has over 30 years of experience in nursing management, clinical practice, education, and medical/legal consulting. She has held leadership roles in hospitals, medical clinics, and insurance companies, managing teams, improving quality of care, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Her experience includes nursing management, clinical practice in various specialties, and designing nursing education programs. She currently owns a medical/legal consulting business and teaches as an adjunct nursing professor.
HealthSpot/Kaiser Permanente Case Study Jeff Mahan
HealthSpot partnered with Kaiser Permanente to pilot a telehealth kiosk for San Diego County employees. The kiosk allowed employees to receive virtual care from Kaiser providers for basic needs onsite at their workplace. Over 450 patients used the kiosk over 12 months, reporting high satisfaction levels. It improved access and convenience while lowering absenteeism. Based on the pilot's success, HealthSpot and Kaiser aim to expand telehealth access further.
Risk Management and Patient Safety Evolution and Progress. Charles Vincent. Match Safety critical component of quality (Madrid, Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, 2005)
This document discusses patient safety, including definitions, terms, reasons errors occur, and strategies to improve safety. It defines patient safety as working to avoid, manage, and treat unsafe acts within healthcare to lead to optimal outcomes. Key aspects of a safety culture discussed include commitment to safety, openness about errors, and a just culture with zero tolerance for reckless behavior. The document also outlines related safety programs around the environment, equipment, and employees. Finally, it presents the International Patient Safety Goals, which include correctly identifying patients, improving communication through techniques like SBAR, improving safety of high-alert medications, ensuring correct procedures, reducing healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene, and reducing falls.
The document provides a summary of Pamela Miller's career objective, work history, education, and contact information. She is seeking a position in health care where she can help patients and medical staff. Her work history demonstrates over 15 years of experience in various medical roles, including as a health technician, medical technician, medical assistant, and therapist tech. She has worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Neighborhood Medical Care, and Spindletop MHMR. Her education includes certification as a medical assistant and phlebotomist from Platt Health Careers and a nursing program at Lamar State College.
PPT ON QUALITY IMPROVEMENT& PATIENT SAFETYsoumyareena
This document discusses quality improvement and patient safety. It defines quality of care and notes that the WHO defines quality as care that is safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable and people-centered. It then discusses that quality improvement in healthcare aims to systematically improve care delivery through measuring, analyzing, improving and controlling processes. Various quality improvement tools are listed such as brainstorming, data collection tools, flow charts and control charts. An example quality improvement project aims to reduce voluntary nurse turnover rates. The steps of defining the problem, organizing a team, clarifying the current process and selecting and planning improvements are outlined. Patient safety is defined as avoiding unintended harm during care. Various aspects of patient safety related to medication, surgery, electricity
Free book on patient safety by Dr Aniruddha Malpani
Medical errors can be a nightmare – both for patients, and for doctors. However, this is one of those topics which we prefer to sweep under the carpet, because it can be so emotionally charged.
This book provides a holistic overview of medical errors from multiple perspectives. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, insurers and patients themselves all need to work together to promote patient safety.
Starting with the basics as to why medical errors are still so common, this book highlights what needs to be done to keep patients safe. Reading this book may help to save your life, or that of a loved one. If you are a patient, please read it before you go to the doctor . If you are a doctor, please read it before you see your next patient !
To recognize The National Patient Safety Foundation's Patient Safety Awareness Week #PSAW2015 we asked our colleagues in the Harvard medical community to complete this sentence: "Patient safety is..."
Here are some of their responses.
Patricia Sellars Frith has over 30 years of experience in nursing management, clinical practice, education, and medical/legal consulting. She has held leadership roles in hospitals, medical clinics, and insurance companies, managing teams, improving quality of care, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Her experience includes nursing management, clinical practice in various specialties, and designing nursing education programs. She currently owns a medical/legal consulting business and teaches as an adjunct nursing professor.
HealthSpot/Kaiser Permanente Case Study Jeff Mahan
HealthSpot partnered with Kaiser Permanente to pilot a telehealth kiosk for San Diego County employees. The kiosk allowed employees to receive virtual care from Kaiser providers for basic needs onsite at their workplace. Over 450 patients used the kiosk over 12 months, reporting high satisfaction levels. It improved access and convenience while lowering absenteeism. Based on the pilot's success, HealthSpot and Kaiser aim to expand telehealth access further.
Risk Management and Patient Safety Evolution and Progress. Charles Vincent. Match Safety critical component of quality (Madrid, Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, 2005)
This document discusses patient safety, including definitions, terms, reasons errors occur, and strategies to improve safety. It defines patient safety as working to avoid, manage, and treat unsafe acts within healthcare to lead to optimal outcomes. Key aspects of a safety culture discussed include commitment to safety, openness about errors, and a just culture with zero tolerance for reckless behavior. The document also outlines related safety programs around the environment, equipment, and employees. Finally, it presents the International Patient Safety Goals, which include correctly identifying patients, improving communication through techniques like SBAR, improving safety of high-alert medications, ensuring correct procedures, reducing healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene, and reducing falls.
The document provides a summary of Pamela Miller's career objective, work history, education, and contact information. She is seeking a position in health care where she can help patients and medical staff. Her work history demonstrates over 15 years of experience in various medical roles, including as a health technician, medical technician, medical assistant, and therapist tech. She has worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Neighborhood Medical Care, and Spindletop MHMR. Her education includes certification as a medical assistant and phlebotomist from Platt Health Careers and a nursing program at Lamar State College.
PPT ON QUALITY IMPROVEMENT& PATIENT SAFETYsoumyareena
This document discusses quality improvement and patient safety. It defines quality of care and notes that the WHO defines quality as care that is safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable and people-centered. It then discusses that quality improvement in healthcare aims to systematically improve care delivery through measuring, analyzing, improving and controlling processes. Various quality improvement tools are listed such as brainstorming, data collection tools, flow charts and control charts. An example quality improvement project aims to reduce voluntary nurse turnover rates. The steps of defining the problem, organizing a team, clarifying the current process and selecting and planning improvements are outlined. Patient safety is defined as avoiding unintended harm during care. Various aspects of patient safety related to medication, surgery, electricity
- The document discusses a proposed research study to examine the impact of nurse staffing levels on patient safety and mortality. The hypothesis is that regulating the number of patients each nurse cares for will decrease patient mortality and errors.
- The study would take place over 3 years in 300 randomly selected hospitals, comparing patient outcomes when nurse staffing is increased vs normal staffing levels.
- It is expected that better patient outcomes will result from lighter nurse workloads, allowing them to focus more carefully on each patient's health status. Results would be published in nursing journals to contribute to the evidence around optimal nurse staffing.
This document outlines patient safety in healthcare facilities. It defines key terms like patient safety, psychological safety, and safety culture. It discusses the roles of the patient safety committee and the components of a patient safety plan. Specific patient safety issues in the intensive care unit are examined, like collaboration among ICU staff and common errors. International patient safety goals are provided, such as accurately identifying patients and reducing healthcare-associated infections. Root cause analysis is introduced as a way to investigate incidents and prevent future errors.
Patient safety is an important part of healthcare. It aims to prevent harm caused by accidents, errors, and complications during treatment. Some key aspects of ensuring patient safety include accurate patient identification, effective communication of medical information, safe medication practices, reducing risks of infections, conducting risk assessments, following safety protocols for radiation and surgery, and maintaining a safe clinic environment. Organizations are working to promote a culture of safety and establish systems to safeguard patients.
This document contains a resume for Aireen R. Pahilacan, a registered nurse from the Philippines seeking work in the UAE. She has over 4 years of experience in nursing roles in hospitals and clinics in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Buraidah, KSA. Her most recent role is as a physician assistant at Lifecare Hospital in Abu Dhabi. She has a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Mindanao in the Philippines and is licensed to practice nursing in the UAE. Her skills include excellent patient care, communication skills, and the ability to work well under pressure.
This document discusses patient safety and medical errors. It notes that medical errors impact about 1 in 10 patients worldwide according to the WHO. The rates of death from medical errors in healthcare exceed those of other high-risk industries like commercial airlines or nuclear power. The document outlines some of the common causes of medical errors, including systemic flaws, communication issues, and patient ignorance. It emphasizes that a culture of safety and teamwork is needed to effectively address patient safety issues and prevent future errors.
The Ryde Hospital Fracture Clinic sees 80 patients each Friday afternoon. It requires significant hospital resources, including 15 staff from multiple disciplines for around 5 hours per week. An audit found average patient waiting times were 81 minutes in 2015. Only 47% of patients surveyed were very satisfied with the service due to long waits, a poor environment, and lack of information. The #FixIt project aims to improve the clinic efficiency and patient experience by 25% within 12 months by enhancing the environment, reducing waits, and improving patient flow and information.
Simple and Safe Approaches Towards Patient SafetyEhi Iden
A conference presentation on simple approaches and steps in achieving and managing patient safety in health. It talks about team approach, mutual support, just system, leadership commitment, complications of blame game and case study of the popular Kimberly Hiatt story.
Courtney Smith is a registered medical assistant and certified phlebotomist seeking a position in Savannah, GA. She has experience as a medical assistant at Memorial University Pediatrics from January 2015 to March 2015, where she took vitals, performed finger sticks, ran hemoglobin A1c tests, and assisted physicians. She earned a certificate in medical assisting from Virginia College between June 2013 and March 2015.
Patients for patient safety. Margaret Murphy. III International Conference on Patient Safety: "Patients for Patient Safety" (Madrid, Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, 2007)
Efforts to improve perioperative care focus mostly on multidisciplinary coordination of evidence-based surgical care pathways, particularly on the day of surgery, and they have been largely successful at reducing hospital length of stay and complication rates. The next frontier involves broadening the focus to span the entire surgical care continuum from when a patient and surgeon first decide to move forward, all the way through outpatient recovery. The prevalence of same-day and short-stay surgery underscores the need to engage patients more effectively before and after admission.
Surgerica offers splenectomy surgery for $3,300. The package includes a consultation, travel assistance, appointments, telemedicine, hospital stay, surgery, medications, and follow up care for 6 months. Surgerica works with JCI-accredited hospitals and experienced surgeons to provide affordable, high-quality treatment and ensure patient needs are met during recovery.
Patient safety aims to prevent harm caused by healthcare itself. While most medical care is delivered safely, errors still occur and patient safety has increasingly been recognized as an important global issue, though more work is needed to address it. Common causes of harm include individual errors, system issues, and environmental factors, and strategies like checklists and protocols seek to improve safety.
Urethral cancer is a type of disease in which cancerous cells forms in the tissues of the urethra. The urethra is a tube which carries urine from the bladder to outside the body. Women are mainly affected by this rare type of cancer compared to men. The most common type of urethral cancer is Squamous cell carcinoma. It forms in the cells in the part of the urethra near the bladder in women, and in the lining of the urethra in the penis in men. Transitional cell carcinoma, is another type of urethral cancer which forms in the area near the urethral opening in women, and in the part of the urethra that goes through the prostate gland in men. Adenocarcinoma is the third type of urethral cancer which forms in glands near the urethra in both men and women. Urethral cancer can metastasize i.e it can spread quickly to tissues around the urethra and is often found in nearby lymph nodes by the time it is diagnosed. Causes include: chronic inflammation in urethra, frequent urinary tract infections, STDs, and history of bladder cancer.
don't forget to say hi at surgerica@gmail.com for detiled treatment plan
This document provides an overview of patient safety initiatives and issues in hospitals. It discusses that 10% of hospital patients suffer adverse events, with medical errors causing around 100,000 deaths per year in the US. Common types of errors include overdoses and performing procedures on the wrong patient. The document then outlines the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative, which develops standards to assess patient safety in hospitals and has piloted the approach in 7 countries. It describes the five domains used to measure hospital performance on patient safety and provides examples of critical and core standards. The document concludes by offering recommendations on how hospitals can develop their own patient safety programs.
The document discusses patient safety definitions, goals, and best practices. It defines patient safety as working to avoid, manage, and treat unsafe acts in healthcare through the use of best practices leading to optimal patient outcomes. The goals are to provide a safe environment for all individuals by promoting a proactive, non-punitive culture that facilitates reporting of hazards, errors, near-misses, and other unsafe conditions. Key aspects that should be reported include unanticipated outcomes, infections, errors, near misses, and safety concerns. Effective communication, identifying patients correctly, improving medication safety, ensuring correct procedures, reducing infections, and mitigating fall risks are emphasized as important areas of focus.
This document provides guidelines for various quality and safety practices at a hospital. It discusses proper patient identification procedures, guidelines for verbal and telephone orders, procedures for high alert medications, surgical checklists including site marking and time outs, hand hygiene practices, fall risk assessment and prevention measures, occurrence variance reporting for documenting incidents, and the focus-PDCA methodology for quality improvement. Key areas of focus include correctly identifying patients, improving communication, ensuring surgery and medication safety, reducing healthcare associated infections and patient harm from falls.
The document outlines international patient safety goals and guidelines for incident reporting. It discusses 6 main safety goals, including correctly identifying patients, improving communication, and reducing healthcare-associated infections. It also defines different types of incidents like near misses, adverse events, and sentinel events. For reporting, it specifies the immediate actions required and that all incidents must be reported to the quality department within 24 hours. The purpose is to distinguish between different adverse events to improve patient safety.
Patient-centric technology moves surgical care beyond the hospital walls. Presented by Rachel Vickery, SHI Global, at HINZ 2014, 12 November 2014, 12pm, Marlborough Room
This document discusses improving quality and safety in healthcare systems through an improvement science approach. It provides three key building blocks for developing a "high reliability organization":
1) Establishing a culture devoted to quality with trust, constructive error management, and zero tolerance for unsafe practices.
2) Implementing clear responsibility and accountability through defined care pathways, outcome measurement, and bottom-up process improvement.
3) Optimizing and standardizing processes through evidence-based standard operating procedures and scrutiny of variations.
Measurement of outcomes is also discussed as crucial for continuous improvement towards being "better than the rest." Engaging all levels is emphasized as fundamental to achieving reliable performance.
This document discusses quality improvement efforts around breast and colorectal cancer screening at CommunityHealth, a nonprofit health center providing free healthcare to low-income, uninsured residents in Chicago. For breast cancer screening, opportunities for improvement include developing patient reminder systems, better use of EMR tools to flag overdue patients, and providing more education. For colorectal cancer screening, a tiered approach using fecal immunochemical tests for average-risk patients and colonoscopies for high-risk patients was implemented. Additional strategies to boost screening rates include intensive provider and staff education and targeted patient outreach. Success will be measured by benchmarking screening rates over time.
- The document discusses a proposed research study to examine the impact of nurse staffing levels on patient safety and mortality. The hypothesis is that regulating the number of patients each nurse cares for will decrease patient mortality and errors.
- The study would take place over 3 years in 300 randomly selected hospitals, comparing patient outcomes when nurse staffing is increased vs normal staffing levels.
- It is expected that better patient outcomes will result from lighter nurse workloads, allowing them to focus more carefully on each patient's health status. Results would be published in nursing journals to contribute to the evidence around optimal nurse staffing.
This document outlines patient safety in healthcare facilities. It defines key terms like patient safety, psychological safety, and safety culture. It discusses the roles of the patient safety committee and the components of a patient safety plan. Specific patient safety issues in the intensive care unit are examined, like collaboration among ICU staff and common errors. International patient safety goals are provided, such as accurately identifying patients and reducing healthcare-associated infections. Root cause analysis is introduced as a way to investigate incidents and prevent future errors.
Patient safety is an important part of healthcare. It aims to prevent harm caused by accidents, errors, and complications during treatment. Some key aspects of ensuring patient safety include accurate patient identification, effective communication of medical information, safe medication practices, reducing risks of infections, conducting risk assessments, following safety protocols for radiation and surgery, and maintaining a safe clinic environment. Organizations are working to promote a culture of safety and establish systems to safeguard patients.
This document contains a resume for Aireen R. Pahilacan, a registered nurse from the Philippines seeking work in the UAE. She has over 4 years of experience in nursing roles in hospitals and clinics in Abu Dhabi, UAE and Buraidah, KSA. Her most recent role is as a physician assistant at Lifecare Hospital in Abu Dhabi. She has a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the University of Mindanao in the Philippines and is licensed to practice nursing in the UAE. Her skills include excellent patient care, communication skills, and the ability to work well under pressure.
This document discusses patient safety and medical errors. It notes that medical errors impact about 1 in 10 patients worldwide according to the WHO. The rates of death from medical errors in healthcare exceed those of other high-risk industries like commercial airlines or nuclear power. The document outlines some of the common causes of medical errors, including systemic flaws, communication issues, and patient ignorance. It emphasizes that a culture of safety and teamwork is needed to effectively address patient safety issues and prevent future errors.
The Ryde Hospital Fracture Clinic sees 80 patients each Friday afternoon. It requires significant hospital resources, including 15 staff from multiple disciplines for around 5 hours per week. An audit found average patient waiting times were 81 minutes in 2015. Only 47% of patients surveyed were very satisfied with the service due to long waits, a poor environment, and lack of information. The #FixIt project aims to improve the clinic efficiency and patient experience by 25% within 12 months by enhancing the environment, reducing waits, and improving patient flow and information.
Simple and Safe Approaches Towards Patient SafetyEhi Iden
A conference presentation on simple approaches and steps in achieving and managing patient safety in health. It talks about team approach, mutual support, just system, leadership commitment, complications of blame game and case study of the popular Kimberly Hiatt story.
Courtney Smith is a registered medical assistant and certified phlebotomist seeking a position in Savannah, GA. She has experience as a medical assistant at Memorial University Pediatrics from January 2015 to March 2015, where she took vitals, performed finger sticks, ran hemoglobin A1c tests, and assisted physicians. She earned a certificate in medical assisting from Virginia College between June 2013 and March 2015.
Patients for patient safety. Margaret Murphy. III International Conference on Patient Safety: "Patients for Patient Safety" (Madrid, Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs, 2007)
Efforts to improve perioperative care focus mostly on multidisciplinary coordination of evidence-based surgical care pathways, particularly on the day of surgery, and they have been largely successful at reducing hospital length of stay and complication rates. The next frontier involves broadening the focus to span the entire surgical care continuum from when a patient and surgeon first decide to move forward, all the way through outpatient recovery. The prevalence of same-day and short-stay surgery underscores the need to engage patients more effectively before and after admission.
Surgerica offers splenectomy surgery for $3,300. The package includes a consultation, travel assistance, appointments, telemedicine, hospital stay, surgery, medications, and follow up care for 6 months. Surgerica works with JCI-accredited hospitals and experienced surgeons to provide affordable, high-quality treatment and ensure patient needs are met during recovery.
Patient safety aims to prevent harm caused by healthcare itself. While most medical care is delivered safely, errors still occur and patient safety has increasingly been recognized as an important global issue, though more work is needed to address it. Common causes of harm include individual errors, system issues, and environmental factors, and strategies like checklists and protocols seek to improve safety.
Urethral cancer is a type of disease in which cancerous cells forms in the tissues of the urethra. The urethra is a tube which carries urine from the bladder to outside the body. Women are mainly affected by this rare type of cancer compared to men. The most common type of urethral cancer is Squamous cell carcinoma. It forms in the cells in the part of the urethra near the bladder in women, and in the lining of the urethra in the penis in men. Transitional cell carcinoma, is another type of urethral cancer which forms in the area near the urethral opening in women, and in the part of the urethra that goes through the prostate gland in men. Adenocarcinoma is the third type of urethral cancer which forms in glands near the urethra in both men and women. Urethral cancer can metastasize i.e it can spread quickly to tissues around the urethra and is often found in nearby lymph nodes by the time it is diagnosed. Causes include: chronic inflammation in urethra, frequent urinary tract infections, STDs, and history of bladder cancer.
don't forget to say hi at surgerica@gmail.com for detiled treatment plan
This document provides an overview of patient safety initiatives and issues in hospitals. It discusses that 10% of hospital patients suffer adverse events, with medical errors causing around 100,000 deaths per year in the US. Common types of errors include overdoses and performing procedures on the wrong patient. The document then outlines the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative, which develops standards to assess patient safety in hospitals and has piloted the approach in 7 countries. It describes the five domains used to measure hospital performance on patient safety and provides examples of critical and core standards. The document concludes by offering recommendations on how hospitals can develop their own patient safety programs.
The document discusses patient safety definitions, goals, and best practices. It defines patient safety as working to avoid, manage, and treat unsafe acts in healthcare through the use of best practices leading to optimal patient outcomes. The goals are to provide a safe environment for all individuals by promoting a proactive, non-punitive culture that facilitates reporting of hazards, errors, near-misses, and other unsafe conditions. Key aspects that should be reported include unanticipated outcomes, infections, errors, near misses, and safety concerns. Effective communication, identifying patients correctly, improving medication safety, ensuring correct procedures, reducing infections, and mitigating fall risks are emphasized as important areas of focus.
This document provides guidelines for various quality and safety practices at a hospital. It discusses proper patient identification procedures, guidelines for verbal and telephone orders, procedures for high alert medications, surgical checklists including site marking and time outs, hand hygiene practices, fall risk assessment and prevention measures, occurrence variance reporting for documenting incidents, and the focus-PDCA methodology for quality improvement. Key areas of focus include correctly identifying patients, improving communication, ensuring surgery and medication safety, reducing healthcare associated infections and patient harm from falls.
The document outlines international patient safety goals and guidelines for incident reporting. It discusses 6 main safety goals, including correctly identifying patients, improving communication, and reducing healthcare-associated infections. It also defines different types of incidents like near misses, adverse events, and sentinel events. For reporting, it specifies the immediate actions required and that all incidents must be reported to the quality department within 24 hours. The purpose is to distinguish between different adverse events to improve patient safety.
Patient-centric technology moves surgical care beyond the hospital walls. Presented by Rachel Vickery, SHI Global, at HINZ 2014, 12 November 2014, 12pm, Marlborough Room
This document discusses improving quality and safety in healthcare systems through an improvement science approach. It provides three key building blocks for developing a "high reliability organization":
1) Establishing a culture devoted to quality with trust, constructive error management, and zero tolerance for unsafe practices.
2) Implementing clear responsibility and accountability through defined care pathways, outcome measurement, and bottom-up process improvement.
3) Optimizing and standardizing processes through evidence-based standard operating procedures and scrutiny of variations.
Measurement of outcomes is also discussed as crucial for continuous improvement towards being "better than the rest." Engaging all levels is emphasized as fundamental to achieving reliable performance.
This document discusses quality improvement efforts around breast and colorectal cancer screening at CommunityHealth, a nonprofit health center providing free healthcare to low-income, uninsured residents in Chicago. For breast cancer screening, opportunities for improvement include developing patient reminder systems, better use of EMR tools to flag overdue patients, and providing more education. For colorectal cancer screening, a tiered approach using fecal immunochemical tests for average-risk patients and colonoscopies for high-risk patients was implemented. Additional strategies to boost screening rates include intensive provider and staff education and targeted patient outreach. Success will be measured by benchmarking screening rates over time.
The document discusses several potential applications of remote presence technology in healthcare settings. It describes how remote presence can be used to increase specialist coverage in intensive care units, provide supplemental physician rounds on medical and surgical floors, enable timely specialty consultations in the emergency department, and allow hospitals to provide outreach to smaller, remote facilities. Implementing these remote presence applications could help improve patient safety, clinical outcomes, healthcare access and efficiency, and physician and staff satisfaction.
The document discusses several potential applications of remote presence technology in healthcare settings. It describes how remote presence can be used to increase specialist coverage in intensive care units, provide supplemental physician rounds on medical and surgical floors, enable timely specialty consultations in the emergency department, and allow hospitals to provide outreach to smaller, remote facilities. Implementing these remote presence applications could help improve patient safety, clinical outcomes, healthcare access and efficiency, and physician and staff satisfaction.
The document discusses several potential applications of remote presence technology in healthcare settings. It describes how remote presence can be used to increase specialist coverage in intensive care units, provide supplemental physician rounds on medical and surgical floors, enable timely specialty consultations in the emergency department, and allow hospitals to provide outreach to smaller, remote facilities. Implementing these remote presence applications could help improve patient safety, clinical outcomes, healthcare access and efficiency, and physician and staff satisfaction.
As pressure mounts on hospitals to improve quality and reduce costs, they have turned to medicine's fastest growing physician specialty—hospital medicine---to improve clinical performance and operational efficiency. How this new role for hospitalists plays out varies according to the type, location and creativity of individual healthcare organizations and the resources available to them. This editorial webinar will explore the steps health care organizations should take to prepare and position their hospitalists for quality-improvement responsibilities. Our panel of experts will share their insights, experiences and proven strategies for success.
Scott Smith, MD, Associate Medical Director of Operations for the Colorado Ka...Investnet
This document provides information about Kaiser Permanente Colorado, including:
- It serves over 540,000 patients through 27 medical offices and has over 1,000 physicians.
- Physicians are salaried and can earn up to a 10% bonus based on quality and service.
- Each medical office has on-site pharmacy, x-ray, and lab services.
- The primary care model focuses on population health and improving patient experience through a team-based approach with virtual care options.
Nadia Negron has applied for a position as a medical assistant and has included her resume highlighting her solid background and skills in the medical assistant field from over 10 years of experience working in OB/GYN and GI offices. She is proficient in tasks like venipuncture, vital sign checks, EKGs, and assisting with procedures, and has experience with electronic medical records and multi-tasking in fast-paced environments. Nadia is looking for a professional environment where she can utilize her strong organizational and technical skills while serving patients.
This document discusses eVisits, which are online medical evaluations between patients and providers. It provides an overview of eVisits, including relevant CPT codes, research on their efficiency and patient preferences, and stats on eVisit usage at HealthPartners and UPMC. The presentation notes that eVisits provide benefits to patients, providers, insurers and employers by increasing access and convenience while reducing costs compared to office visits. However, challenges include ensuring understanding of appropriate eVisit cases and aligning compensation with other care modalities like phone visits.
The document discusses inefficiency in emergency rooms. It identifies several contributing factors to overcrowding including non-emergency patients, uninsured patients, and patients using the ER for prescription refills or pain management. This inefficiency impacts quality of care, access to care, and wait times, negatively affecting patient satisfaction. An action plan is proposed to improve patient flow, maximize resources, implement education programs, and establish performance metrics to monitor goals. Facilitating change may require addressing challenges like culture shifts or staff resistance through reinforcement, education, and adjustments based on feedback. Both productivity and quality must be balanced for optimal patient treatment and satisfaction.
Increasing the number of women that will have an exceptional mammogram experience creates a greater opportunity for growth by keeping those women from seeking out other alternative options with those other healthcare providers. Healthcare systems see a significant upside in mammography screening/diagnostic volumes as well as downstream oncology revenues.
Transforming End of Life Care in Acute Hospitals AM Workshop 2: AMBER Care Bu...NHS Improving Quality
Transforming End of Life Care in Acute Hospitals AM Workshop 2: AMBER Care Bundle by Dr Irene Carey, Susanna Shouls, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Quality and safety, Vision 2025, Specific challenges of Nursing on quality, Quality improvement division, Fish bone technique,QI model, PDCA, Role of Nurse, Empowerment, Nursing positioning and policies,
To provide the newly hired staff with information about the organizational mission, vision, values, and strategic objectives, accreditation agencies, EMTALA, corporate compliance, HIPAA, patient relations, infection control, hospital information systems, social services, cultural competency, and non-blood
This document discusses strategies to optimize patient flow in emergency departments. It outlines steps that can be taken before, during, and after a patient's emergency room visit to improve efficiency and patient care. These include improving triage processes, using fast tracks for less severe patients, coordinating with ancillary services like labs and radiology, and expediting discharges and transfers. The document emphasizes improving communication between doctors, nurses, and other staff through teamwork. It also discusses leveraging technology and monitoring metrics like door-to-doctor times to continuously monitor and enhance patient flow. The overall goal is to reduce delays and improve the experience and outcomes for patients.
Similar to Beyond the Hospital Stay: Targeting patient support via mobile technology to reduce risk, save time and improve care. (20)
About this webinar: This talk will introduce what cancer rehabilitation is, where it fits into the cancer trajectory, and who can benefit from it. In addition, the current landscape of cancer rehabilitation in Canada will be discussed and the need for advocacy to increase access to this essential component of cancer care.
The best massage spa Ajman is Chandrima Spa Ajman, which was founded in 2023 and is exclusively for men 24 hours a day. As of right now, our parent firm has been providing massage services to over 50,000+ clients in Ajman for the past 10 years. It has about 8+ branches. This demonstrates that Chandrima Spa Ajman is among the most reasonably priced spas in Ajman and the ideal place to unwind and rejuvenate. We provide a wide range of Spa massage treatments, including Indian, Pakistani, Kerala, Malayali, and body-to-body massages. Numerous massage techniques are available, including deep tissue, Swedish, Thai, Russian, and hot stone massages. Our massage therapists produce genuinely unique treatments that generate a revitalized sense of inner serenely by fusing modern techniques, the cleanest natural substances, and traditional holistic therapists.
PET CT beginners Guide covers some of the underrepresented topics in PET CTMiadAlsulami
This lecture briefly covers some of the underrepresented topics in Molecular imaging with cases , such as:
- Primary pleural tumors and pleural metastases.
- Distinguishing between MPM and Talc Pleurodesis.
- Urological tumors.
- The role of FDG PET in NET.
Can Allopathy and Homeopathy Be Used Together in India.pdfDharma Homoeopathy
This article explores the potential for combining allopathy and homeopathy in India, examining the benefits, challenges, and the emerging field of integrative medicine.
Hypertension and it's role of physiotherapy in it.Vishal kr Thakur
This particular slides consist of- what is hypertension,what are it's causes and it's effect on body, risk factors, symptoms,complications, diagnosis and role of physiotherapy in it.
This slide is very helpful for physiotherapy students and also for other medical and healthcare students.
Here is summary of hypertension -
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a serious medical condition that occurs when blood pressure in the body's arteries is consistently too high. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of blood vessels as the heart pumps it. Hypertension can increase the risk of heart disease, brain disease, kidney disease, and premature death.
Healthy Eating Habits:
Understanding Nutrition Labels: Teaches how to read and interpret food labels, focusing on serving sizes, calorie intake, and nutrients to limit or include.
Tips for Healthy Eating: Offers practical advice such as incorporating a variety of foods, practicing moderation, staying hydrated, and eating mindfully.
Benefits of Regular Exercise:
Physical Benefits: Discusses how exercise aids in weight management, muscle and bone health, cardiovascular health, and flexibility.
Mental Benefits: Explains the psychological advantages, including stress reduction, improved mood, and better sleep.
Tips for Staying Active:
Encourages consistency, variety in exercises, setting realistic goals, and finding enjoyable activities to maintain motivation.
Maintaining a Balanced Lifestyle:
Integrating Nutrition and Exercise: Suggests meal planning and incorporating physical activity into daily routines.
Monitoring Progress: Recommends tracking food intake and exercise, regular health check-ups, and provides tips for achieving balance, such as getting sufficient sleep, managing stress, and staying socially active.
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Beyond the Hospital Stay: Targeting patient support via mobile technology to reduce risk, save time and improve care.
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Beyond the Hospital Stay
Targeting patient support via mobile technology
to reduce risk, save time and improve care.
Adrian Saunders ADON, St Andrew’s Hospital
James Kollias MBBS FRACS MD CCPU
Ken Saman CEO, Personify Care
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Patients Support before and after surgery
Clinicians Save time to focus on patients
Organisation Reduce risk and manage costs
Personify Care
Improves
outcomesMinimises
paperwork
Targets at risk
patients
Reduces per-
patient costs
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St Andrew’s Hospital
• South Australia’s largest stand alone, not for profit hospital
• 213 bed private surgical hospital
• 28000 separations
• 650 staff
• Pre-admission Clinic
• Screen surgical patients
• Breast Care Centre
• Specialist breast care nurses
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Current State
Preadmission Clinic
- Paper forms received by post
- Manual review of risks
- Schedule phone / face to face
Breast Care Nurses
- On ward caring for patients
- Receive calls from patients post discharge
- 1 follow up call to patients
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Objectives
Objectives:
• detect patient risks earlier
• extend monitoring of patient recovery
Without:
• Increasing nurse workload
• Getting in the way of the patient relationship
Solution has to be:
• Accessible to everyone incuding nursing staff & VMOs
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Why evaluate Personify Care?
Pre-admission:
• Patients recall 25-30% of information1
• Unnecessary calls or patient is unprepared
• Paperwork received on the day
How do we avoid surprises on day of surgery?
Post-discharge:
• Patients are called post discharge.
• Patients needs to know if / when to escalate issues
• Some patients call too early and some too late.
How do we detect risks before they escalate?
(1 Godwin Y. Do they listen? A review of information retained by patients following consent for reduction mammoplasty. Br J Plast Surg 2000;53: 121-5)
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The focus is moving to outcomes post discharge
• 550 discharges a week
• The key is:
• based on our existing clinical protocols
• which patients are at risk today?
• notify the right person within the clinical team
• before a complication escalates
ASFocus on outcomes
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October 2015 – February 2016
Breast Cancer Surgery
Pre admission and Post discharge
• Breast Cancer Patients
• Median age: 57 (31 – 81)
• Over 7 weeks
• Pre-admission: 2 weeks
• Post- discharge: 6 weeks
• Interactions per patient: 17
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Implementation
• No workflow changes
• No upfront implementation / installation
• Delivered to patients within 2-4 weeks.
• Nursing staff using it after 15-minutes induction
• No special hardware needed for hospital or patient.
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• 95.8% patient response rate
• Response to 483 / 504 interactions
• Over 7 weeks
• Included:
• Information
• Actions
• Health Assessments
KSPatients Responded
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95%
Very satisfied or satisfied
86%
Felt supported after they left hospital
as a result of having access to Personify Care
KSPatient Satisfaction
Overall, how satisfied were you with the Personify Care service?
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• No increase in time spent
• Reduced manual effort in follow up
• Increased feedback from patients
• Detect patient risks as they occur
• Time spent dealing with patient risks early
No extra time spent
Response rate for
7 weeks
Patient
Response
96%
Interactions from
2 to 17
Monitoring
Rate
8x
Results: Jan 2016
Targetted Support
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Pre-surgery: number of patients at risks:
• Blood thinners
• Diabetes
• Gastric band
Post-discharge: number of patients at risk:
• Wound
• Nausea
• Need to speak to nurse
• Mobility issue
• Drain issue
• Pain Score > 4
Hospital: Enhance Risk ManagementDetected Risks
Wound Risk Breakdown
Wound discharge
Swollen to touch
Redness
Raised Temperature
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Detected risks that lead to early intervention
(based on clinical team evaluation)
In 1 in 5 cases, the clinical team were able to detect and intervene to
patient risks early
Hospital: Enhance Risk ManagementEarly Intervention
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Patient risks detectedNurse Evaluation
Annie Filsell
Pre-Admission Clinic Coordinator
Before using Personify Care, we would often
get calls from patients saying “I’ve filled out
my form. did you get it?”
I would love to use it for all our discharge
calls
Jill Borthwick
Clinical Nurse - Breast Services
Quite often we don’t get called until there is
something really serious like a hot wound …. On
this system, it seemed much quicker to get a
response back.
I think we are reducing the overall risk of patient
complications.
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Maria & Cheryne
Practice Staff - Dr Kollias Rooms
We would definitely recommend it to other
surgical practices.
Calls for general information have declined by
around 50%
Dr James Kollias
MBBS FRACS MD CCPU
Breast & Endocrine Surgeon
Since introducing the Personify Care service, our
practice has seen the terrific impact it has had on
patients preparing for surgery and dealing with their
recovery process.
By offering patients timely information and support,
the platform has improved the quality of our
practice and significantly reduced the number of
unnecessary calls we receive.
VMO Benefit
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Where to from here? KS
Summary
Patients Better experience before and after surgery
Clinicians Save time to focus on patients
Hospital Visibility. Early Intervention. Reduced Risk.
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KS & AS
Questions
Beyond the Hospital Stay
Targeting patient support via mobile technology
to reduce risk, save time and improve care.
Adrian Saunders ADON, St Andrew’s Hospital
James Kollias MBBS FRACS MD CCPU
Ken Saman CEO, Personify Care