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This study analyzed care coordination data from over 600 HIV patients at a safety net clinic to better understand coordination needs. It found that current payment methods do not accurately reflect actual coordination time needed. Social factors like housing status, language barriers, unemployment, and literacy had a larger impact on coordination time than medical complexity. Patients who were institutionally housed, required interpreters, or were unemployed/disabled required significantly more coordination minutes. The study aims to help clinics better account for patient social needs in care coordination models.
This document summarizes research on the impact of nurse staffing levels and education on patient outcomes. It finds that hospitals with fewer patients per nurse and more BSN-educated nurses have lower mortality and complication rates. Specifically, adding one more patient per nurse increases the risk of death by 7% and having 10% more BSN nurses lowers the mortality rate by 7%. The document recommends avoiding policies that replace RNs with less educated assistants and emphasizes the need for adequate nurse staffing to improve quality of care and reduce costs.
This study analyzed 692 adverse events voluntarily reported over 24 months at a private hospital in Sri Lanka. Reporting varied by unit, with the most (26%) from obstetrics and pediatrics. The leading causes of adverse events were non-compliance (15%), surgical site infections (11%), re-admissions (11%), and hospital-acquired infections (11%). Almost all events (98%) caused temporary or no harm. Voluntary reporting was highest for infections and non-compliance. The study concludes voluntary reporting of adverse events is possible in Sri Lankan hospitals.
Brittany Chipps is seeking a career as a medical assistant in an urgent care setting. She has an Associate's degree in Medical Assisting and is a Nationally Certified Medical Assistant. Her clinical skills include vital signs, phlebotomy, injections, ECGs, and assisting with minor procedures. She also has skills in office administration, medical terminology, coding, billing, and electronic health records. Her previous experience includes a 120-hour medical assisting externship and customer service jobs.
This document summarizes the services provided by esurgeries.com, an organization that connects patients to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) for more efficient, higher quality and lower cost surgical care. The document outlines that ASCs offer preeminent surgeons, high clinical standards and infection rates of zero percent. Patients benefit from scheduling convenience, individual attention and savings of over 50% in out-of-pocket costs compared to hospitals. ASCs also provide employers and insurance companies lower healthcare costs.
The document discusses medication reconciliation and errors. It notes that adverse drug events are common in hospitals and can result in harm or death. A study found over 50% of patients had at least one unintentional medication discrepancy upon admission. The challenges include a lack of standardized processes and clear ownership when patients transition between care settings. The document proposes interventions like education, standardized workflows, technology solutions, and policies to fully implement a medication reconciliation program across nursing, pharmacy, physicians, and patients to reduce errors and discrepancies.
The document discusses whether intermittent drug testing should be required for healthcare workers given that 10% of medical personnel are substance abusers. It notes that drug testing is currently not required by law and identifies reasons why healthcare workers may turn to drugs, such as easy access to controlled substances and high stress careers. The document advocates for random drug testing of healthcare workers to identify problem users, reduce patient injuries, provide reassurance to patients, and decrease turnover rates. It also suggests alternative programs to termination for employees who are abusing substances through education and hospital maintenance programs.
This study analyzed care coordination data from over 600 HIV patients at a safety net clinic to better understand coordination needs. It found that current payment methods do not accurately reflect actual coordination time needed. Social factors like housing status, language barriers, unemployment, and literacy had a larger impact on coordination time than medical complexity. Patients who were institutionally housed, required interpreters, or were unemployed/disabled required significantly more coordination minutes. The study aims to help clinics better account for patient social needs in care coordination models.
This document summarizes research on the impact of nurse staffing levels and education on patient outcomes. It finds that hospitals with fewer patients per nurse and more BSN-educated nurses have lower mortality and complication rates. Specifically, adding one more patient per nurse increases the risk of death by 7% and having 10% more BSN nurses lowers the mortality rate by 7%. The document recommends avoiding policies that replace RNs with less educated assistants and emphasizes the need for adequate nurse staffing to improve quality of care and reduce costs.
This study analyzed 692 adverse events voluntarily reported over 24 months at a private hospital in Sri Lanka. Reporting varied by unit, with the most (26%) from obstetrics and pediatrics. The leading causes of adverse events were non-compliance (15%), surgical site infections (11%), re-admissions (11%), and hospital-acquired infections (11%). Almost all events (98%) caused temporary or no harm. Voluntary reporting was highest for infections and non-compliance. The study concludes voluntary reporting of adverse events is possible in Sri Lankan hospitals.
Brittany Chipps is seeking a career as a medical assistant in an urgent care setting. She has an Associate's degree in Medical Assisting and is a Nationally Certified Medical Assistant. Her clinical skills include vital signs, phlebotomy, injections, ECGs, and assisting with minor procedures. She also has skills in office administration, medical terminology, coding, billing, and electronic health records. Her previous experience includes a 120-hour medical assisting externship and customer service jobs.
This document summarizes the services provided by esurgeries.com, an organization that connects patients to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) for more efficient, higher quality and lower cost surgical care. The document outlines that ASCs offer preeminent surgeons, high clinical standards and infection rates of zero percent. Patients benefit from scheduling convenience, individual attention and savings of over 50% in out-of-pocket costs compared to hospitals. ASCs also provide employers and insurance companies lower healthcare costs.
The document discusses medication reconciliation and errors. It notes that adverse drug events are common in hospitals and can result in harm or death. A study found over 50% of patients had at least one unintentional medication discrepancy upon admission. The challenges include a lack of standardized processes and clear ownership when patients transition between care settings. The document proposes interventions like education, standardized workflows, technology solutions, and policies to fully implement a medication reconciliation program across nursing, pharmacy, physicians, and patients to reduce errors and discrepancies.
The document discusses whether intermittent drug testing should be required for healthcare workers given that 10% of medical personnel are substance abusers. It notes that drug testing is currently not required by law and identifies reasons why healthcare workers may turn to drugs, such as easy access to controlled substances and high stress careers. The document advocates for random drug testing of healthcare workers to identify problem users, reduce patient injuries, provide reassurance to patients, and decrease turnover rates. It also suggests alternative programs to termination for employees who are abusing substances through education and hospital maintenance programs.
Advanced Lab Analytics for Patient Blood Management ProgramsViewics
Reports indicate that 30 – 70% of blood transfusions are inappropriate. Inappropriate blood transfusions put patients at increased risk of post-surgical infections, multi-system organ failure, longer hospital stays, and higher mortality rates. The transfusion guidelines most clinicians learned in their training are now outdated. As such, blood transfusion practices vary widely, and overutilization remains a major quality and cost problem.
Patient Blood Management (PBM) programs are designed to optimize the use of transfusions through a team-based approach, evidence-based guidelines, and algorithms that together guide decisions regarding specifically which patients and clinical procedures warrant blood products, and how much to transfuse. PBM programs have been quite successful in improving patient morbidity and mortality outcomes and generating millions of dollars in savings for hospitals.
Laboratory analytics can be an effective means of instituting restrictive transfusion programs, and advanced lab analytics can be critical in implementing PBM programs, as lab testing and tracking blood usage is central to decision making, changing behavior, and improving performance.
Watch a presentation by Dr. Eleanor Herriman, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Viewics. She unveils a new suite of advanced analytics tools that support PBS and other restrictive blood management programs, enabling health systems to better leverage their valuable lab medicine assets and fully integrate this key service line into these programs.
You’ll learn:
• How inappropriate blood transfusions are burdening our healthcare system, and the need for better utilization management tools
• New guidelines restricting red blood cell transfusions
• The role of advanced lab analytics in PBM programs
• How Viewics is leveraging advanced lab analytics to help health systems more easily and cost-effectively implement PBM programs
Revolutionizing Renal Care With Predictive Analytics for CKDViewics
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a common and growing condition, affecting about half of the Medicare population and of diabetics. In the United States, the lifetime risk of CKD for 30-year-olds is now greater than half, and the prevalence of CKD is projected to rise significantly over the next 15 years.
Current methods of predicting which CKD patients will progress to renal failure and require dialysis or transplant have low accuracy rates, causing great anxiety and suboptimal care. Without accurate risk prediction, many patients are over-treated, effectively wasting limited resources and negatively impacting outcomes. Conversely, other patients may receive inadequate treatment, restricting options to only the most costly and least desirable interventions.
Watch this on-demand webinar with Dr. Navdeep Tangri, developer of the Kidney Failure Risk Equation, which revolutionizes the way CKD patients are managed by leveraging laboratory data to accurately predict the risk of kidney failure in patients with CKD.
You’ll learn:
• How CKD is burdening our healthcare system, and the need for better care management tools
• How the Kidney Failure Risk Equation was researched, developed, and validated
• How Viewics is implementing CKD predictive analytics to automatically deliver risk information to clinicians and issue customized, educational reports to patients and clinicians
Academyhealth 2013 How are Rural Hospitals Using Hospitalists?Peiyin Hung
In this study, we focused on the following research questions: 1) Which rural hospitals use hospitalists, and how do they differ from those that do not?; 2) Why are small rural hospitals using hospitalists and how are they being used?; and 3) What impact is hospitalist use having on rural hospital quality of care, finances, and recruitment and retention of primary care physicians?
Best Practices for a Data-driven Approach to Test UtilizationViewics
Would you like to learn how data-driven interventions can improve laboratory test utilization in your organization? Would you like to hear about the impact that leading hospitals/health systems and managed care organizations have made through these interventions?
If so, you might be interested in this presentation by utilization management expert Dr. Michael Astion, Medical Director at the Department of Laboratories at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington.
In this presentation, Dr. Astion discusses the current state of the misuse of laboratory testing in the United States and some of the interventions that are being implemented to improve it. He covers a number of common areas of unnecessary testing — from pure abuse to tests that could be useful but are ordered inappropriately.
You'll learn about:
• Two areas of laboratory testing where misordering of tests occur frequently
• Three interventions to improve the value of testing for patients
• The role of genetic counselors and other laboratory professionals in improving lab test ordering
• The national endeavor known as PLUGS, the Pediatric Laboratory Utilization Guidance Service
Midlands and Lancashire CSU- Insight and partnership improving experience for...RuthEvansPEN
The document discusses a partnership working to improve patient experience across multiple organizations in the Midlands and Lancashire region. The partnership collects patient feedback, reports of clinical effectiveness and safety incidents, and uses the data to identify areas for improvement. Over time the partnership has expanded the types of data collected, increased reporting volumes, improved outcomes and actions taken in response to the data. The results demonstrate year-over-year increases in reporting and actions taken to address issues raised through the data.
This document is a resume for Peter Umukoro, highlighting his experience in clinical research and occupational health. He has over 8 years of experience in research projects at Harvard University and hospitals in Nigeria and the United States. His work has included designing and conducting studies on workplace health issues like welders' exposure to particulates and nurses' risk of back injuries. He also has a ScD in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.
Enabling Remote Patient Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges at Bio2Devic...Akhsar Kharebov
Personal medical devices track an ever increasing amount of patient information away from the hospital. Coupled with quantitative self devices such as fitness trackers or calories counters, provide valuable information as the condition of a patient. Digital Health is growing a new realm of opportunities for biospace professionals. Yet challenges exist. Medical information software are archaic and siloed. Medical system is slow to adopt.
The document discusses using data and analytics to drive improvements in healthcare. It outlines the components of a data-driven organization, including an enterprise data warehouse, metrics, predictive models, protocols, and governance. It also discusses how analytics can help healthcare providers transition to value-based payments by measuring quality, reducing variation, and eliminating waste. Specific examples are provided on how one healthcare system used data to reduce variation in spine care, lower bleeding complications after PCI procedures, identify drug cost opportunities in knee replacements, and lower supply costs for lumbar fusion procedures.
This study examined the effects of nurse staffing levels and the nurse practice environment on nurse and patient outcomes using survey data from over 12,000 nurses in 604 hospitals. The researchers found that higher nurse workloads were associated with increased job dissatisfaction, burnout, and intent to leave. They also found that improvements to the practice environment were associated with decreased job dissatisfaction, burnout, and intent to leave among nurses as well as improved nurse ratings of patient care quality and safety. The researchers concluded that addressing nurse workload and improving practice environments could help increase nurse retention and improve the quality of patient care.
The document discusses two examples of using linked administrative data to drive innovation in aging societies. The Western Australian Data Linkage System links over 30 health databases to analyze outcomes like rates of adverse drug reactions in the elderly. Analysis showed reaction rates were double what medical coding showed and identified inappropriate medications linked to hospitalizations. The Institute of Urban Indigenous Health used linked data to measure outcomes of chronic disease interventions, calculate cost savings, and conduct geographic planning to improve access to care.
The annual physical exam allows physicians to detect changes that could affect their patients’ health, but there are debates as to whether it is really necessary.
Final MSN-CNL Capstone Poster PresentationAshleyKendall6
My master's clinical nurse leader capstone quality improvement project's purpose was to decrease the number of intentional poisoning patient admissions on the transitional care unit (TCU) at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. Shown here is the project poster for presentation I created in May 2021.
Dr. Hank Gardner's Stanford MedX Human Capital Risk Index (HUI) Presentation ...HCMS Group
Dr. Hank Gardner's presentation from the Stanford Medicine X (MedX) Conference 2014. The presentation focuses on population health's connect to patient-centric care, the 5% problem (5% of an employee population driving over 50% of benefit costs), the prevalence of comorbid health conditions, telehealth, and a predictive and comprehensive risk index--Human Capital Risk Index (HUI)--which allows providers and patients to better understand the whole person that is being treated.
Nurse anesthetists work in hospitals, surgical centers, and doctors' offices to check patients' vital signs, explain anesthesia, and monitor patients during procedures using various anesthetics and equipment. They ensure patients' blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and skin color remain normal. While some nurses work part-time, those in hospitals and surgical centers often work full-time daytime hours. Nurse anesthetists require a minimum of a 4-year BSN degree but a graduate degree is recommended. Their annual salary ranges from $122,000 to $165,000 and job growth is projected to be higher than average at 2.2% per year through 2030.
Patient Blood Management: Impact of Quality Data on Patient OutcomesViewics
Patient blood management (PBM) has been proven to improve patient outcomes and save hospitals millions of dollars. Ensuring the quality of your data is central to decision making and critical to having a strong PBM program.
Would you like to learn how your organization can improve patient outcomes by implementing a PBM program based on accurate data?
If so, view this presentation by blood management expert Lance Trewhella. Lance presents how to develop a successful, evidence-based, multidisciplinary PBM program aimed at optimizing the care of patients who might need transfusion.
You’ll learn:
• Current recommendations for blood transfusion utilization
• The impact of quality data on PBM programs
• Best data practices in PBM
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
Tackling the U.S. Healthcare System’s Infectious Disease Management ProblemViewics
The United States healthcare system has a serious infectious disease management problem. The antibiotic resistance crisis is widespread, serious, costly, and deadly. Delays in pathogen identification lead to poor clinical outcomes, including increased mortality risk. And, optimally managing outbreaks is critical to health systems whose reimbursement is tied to the health of a population, such as ACOs.
Eleanor Herriman, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Viewics led an informative panel discussion with industry leaders on the issues surrounding the infectious disease management crisis. Margret Oethinger, MD, Ph.D., Medical Director of Providence Health & Services, and Susan E. Sharp, Ph.D., DABMM, FAAM, Regional Director of Microbiology and the Molecular Infectious Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathology, Kaiser Permanente and President-Elect, American Society for Microbiology cover the current state of infectious disease management in the U.S., and what can be done to improve it.
You’ll learn about:
• The magnitude of the U.S. health system’s infectious disease management problem
• The most serious concerns and trends for healthcare institutions and communities across the nation
• The most promising solutions to health systems’ most urgent infectious disease management challenges
Dr. Craig J. Lenz - School of Osteopathic MedSamantha Haas
This document discusses barriers to telehealth and opportunities to integrate medical education and telehealth. It describes an early telehealth program in San Bernardino County, California that helped address barriers to care from distance. The document also discusses piloting the use of video conferencing units at a medical school to help deliver certain specialties and clinical education remotely, as well as the potential for students on international clerkships to participate in morning report back at the medical school via laptop or iPad.
This document discusses the need for ongoing training of doctors through continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development (CPD). It outlines several key points:
1) Medical knowledge is constantly evolving, with over 500 new pages published daily, requiring lifelong learning to ensure high quality patient care.
2) CME/CPD helps change doctors' behaviors to align with guidelines, protocols, and best practices through educational, personal, and environmental factors.
3) Saudi Arabia now requires collection of CME hours for recertification, demonstrating the importance placed on ongoing training.
4) King Faisal Specialist Hospital implemented several academic and training activities to improve staff skills and the quality of patient care.
The document analyzes the health care industry in the Cincinnati metropolitan statistical area. It finds that in 2013, the industry employed over 118,000 workers and had an economic impact of over $11 billion including multiplier effects. The industry is projected to add over 35,000 new jobs from 2010 to 2020, but the region's colleges and universities are only graduating about two-thirds of the 34,000 workers needed, leaving a shortage of over 17,000 trained health care professionals. The full report with more detailed analysis is available online.
This document outlines objectives for a customer targeting project for a company called "XXX". It involves identifying potential clients such as medical practices and laboratories that could purchase medical instruments. Key deliverables include a contact database of targets. The document describes analyzing national healthcare data to define target customer profiles and segmentations. It also describes integrating data on healthcare providers and moderate/highly complex clinical laboratories to identify matching targets for direct outreach.
Advanced Lab Analytics for Patient Blood Management ProgramsViewics
Reports indicate that 30 – 70% of blood transfusions are inappropriate. Inappropriate blood transfusions put patients at increased risk of post-surgical infections, multi-system organ failure, longer hospital stays, and higher mortality rates. The transfusion guidelines most clinicians learned in their training are now outdated. As such, blood transfusion practices vary widely, and overutilization remains a major quality and cost problem.
Patient Blood Management (PBM) programs are designed to optimize the use of transfusions through a team-based approach, evidence-based guidelines, and algorithms that together guide decisions regarding specifically which patients and clinical procedures warrant blood products, and how much to transfuse. PBM programs have been quite successful in improving patient morbidity and mortality outcomes and generating millions of dollars in savings for hospitals.
Laboratory analytics can be an effective means of instituting restrictive transfusion programs, and advanced lab analytics can be critical in implementing PBM programs, as lab testing and tracking blood usage is central to decision making, changing behavior, and improving performance.
Watch a presentation by Dr. Eleanor Herriman, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Viewics. She unveils a new suite of advanced analytics tools that support PBS and other restrictive blood management programs, enabling health systems to better leverage their valuable lab medicine assets and fully integrate this key service line into these programs.
You’ll learn:
• How inappropriate blood transfusions are burdening our healthcare system, and the need for better utilization management tools
• New guidelines restricting red blood cell transfusions
• The role of advanced lab analytics in PBM programs
• How Viewics is leveraging advanced lab analytics to help health systems more easily and cost-effectively implement PBM programs
Revolutionizing Renal Care With Predictive Analytics for CKDViewics
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a common and growing condition, affecting about half of the Medicare population and of diabetics. In the United States, the lifetime risk of CKD for 30-year-olds is now greater than half, and the prevalence of CKD is projected to rise significantly over the next 15 years.
Current methods of predicting which CKD patients will progress to renal failure and require dialysis or transplant have low accuracy rates, causing great anxiety and suboptimal care. Without accurate risk prediction, many patients are over-treated, effectively wasting limited resources and negatively impacting outcomes. Conversely, other patients may receive inadequate treatment, restricting options to only the most costly and least desirable interventions.
Watch this on-demand webinar with Dr. Navdeep Tangri, developer of the Kidney Failure Risk Equation, which revolutionizes the way CKD patients are managed by leveraging laboratory data to accurately predict the risk of kidney failure in patients with CKD.
You’ll learn:
• How CKD is burdening our healthcare system, and the need for better care management tools
• How the Kidney Failure Risk Equation was researched, developed, and validated
• How Viewics is implementing CKD predictive analytics to automatically deliver risk information to clinicians and issue customized, educational reports to patients and clinicians
Academyhealth 2013 How are Rural Hospitals Using Hospitalists?Peiyin Hung
In this study, we focused on the following research questions: 1) Which rural hospitals use hospitalists, and how do they differ from those that do not?; 2) Why are small rural hospitals using hospitalists and how are they being used?; and 3) What impact is hospitalist use having on rural hospital quality of care, finances, and recruitment and retention of primary care physicians?
Best Practices for a Data-driven Approach to Test UtilizationViewics
Would you like to learn how data-driven interventions can improve laboratory test utilization in your organization? Would you like to hear about the impact that leading hospitals/health systems and managed care organizations have made through these interventions?
If so, you might be interested in this presentation by utilization management expert Dr. Michael Astion, Medical Director at the Department of Laboratories at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington.
In this presentation, Dr. Astion discusses the current state of the misuse of laboratory testing in the United States and some of the interventions that are being implemented to improve it. He covers a number of common areas of unnecessary testing — from pure abuse to tests that could be useful but are ordered inappropriately.
You'll learn about:
• Two areas of laboratory testing where misordering of tests occur frequently
• Three interventions to improve the value of testing for patients
• The role of genetic counselors and other laboratory professionals in improving lab test ordering
• The national endeavor known as PLUGS, the Pediatric Laboratory Utilization Guidance Service
Midlands and Lancashire CSU- Insight and partnership improving experience for...RuthEvansPEN
The document discusses a partnership working to improve patient experience across multiple organizations in the Midlands and Lancashire region. The partnership collects patient feedback, reports of clinical effectiveness and safety incidents, and uses the data to identify areas for improvement. Over time the partnership has expanded the types of data collected, increased reporting volumes, improved outcomes and actions taken in response to the data. The results demonstrate year-over-year increases in reporting and actions taken to address issues raised through the data.
This document is a resume for Peter Umukoro, highlighting his experience in clinical research and occupational health. He has over 8 years of experience in research projects at Harvard University and hospitals in Nigeria and the United States. His work has included designing and conducting studies on workplace health issues like welders' exposure to particulates and nurses' risk of back injuries. He also has a ScD in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health.
Enabling Remote Patient Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges at Bio2Devic...Akhsar Kharebov
Personal medical devices track an ever increasing amount of patient information away from the hospital. Coupled with quantitative self devices such as fitness trackers or calories counters, provide valuable information as the condition of a patient. Digital Health is growing a new realm of opportunities for biospace professionals. Yet challenges exist. Medical information software are archaic and siloed. Medical system is slow to adopt.
The document discusses using data and analytics to drive improvements in healthcare. It outlines the components of a data-driven organization, including an enterprise data warehouse, metrics, predictive models, protocols, and governance. It also discusses how analytics can help healthcare providers transition to value-based payments by measuring quality, reducing variation, and eliminating waste. Specific examples are provided on how one healthcare system used data to reduce variation in spine care, lower bleeding complications after PCI procedures, identify drug cost opportunities in knee replacements, and lower supply costs for lumbar fusion procedures.
This study examined the effects of nurse staffing levels and the nurse practice environment on nurse and patient outcomes using survey data from over 12,000 nurses in 604 hospitals. The researchers found that higher nurse workloads were associated with increased job dissatisfaction, burnout, and intent to leave. They also found that improvements to the practice environment were associated with decreased job dissatisfaction, burnout, and intent to leave among nurses as well as improved nurse ratings of patient care quality and safety. The researchers concluded that addressing nurse workload and improving practice environments could help increase nurse retention and improve the quality of patient care.
The document discusses two examples of using linked administrative data to drive innovation in aging societies. The Western Australian Data Linkage System links over 30 health databases to analyze outcomes like rates of adverse drug reactions in the elderly. Analysis showed reaction rates were double what medical coding showed and identified inappropriate medications linked to hospitalizations. The Institute of Urban Indigenous Health used linked data to measure outcomes of chronic disease interventions, calculate cost savings, and conduct geographic planning to improve access to care.
The annual physical exam allows physicians to detect changes that could affect their patients’ health, but there are debates as to whether it is really necessary.
Final MSN-CNL Capstone Poster PresentationAshleyKendall6
My master's clinical nurse leader capstone quality improvement project's purpose was to decrease the number of intentional poisoning patient admissions on the transitional care unit (TCU) at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. Shown here is the project poster for presentation I created in May 2021.
Dr. Hank Gardner's Stanford MedX Human Capital Risk Index (HUI) Presentation ...HCMS Group
Dr. Hank Gardner's presentation from the Stanford Medicine X (MedX) Conference 2014. The presentation focuses on population health's connect to patient-centric care, the 5% problem (5% of an employee population driving over 50% of benefit costs), the prevalence of comorbid health conditions, telehealth, and a predictive and comprehensive risk index--Human Capital Risk Index (HUI)--which allows providers and patients to better understand the whole person that is being treated.
Nurse anesthetists work in hospitals, surgical centers, and doctors' offices to check patients' vital signs, explain anesthesia, and monitor patients during procedures using various anesthetics and equipment. They ensure patients' blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and skin color remain normal. While some nurses work part-time, those in hospitals and surgical centers often work full-time daytime hours. Nurse anesthetists require a minimum of a 4-year BSN degree but a graduate degree is recommended. Their annual salary ranges from $122,000 to $165,000 and job growth is projected to be higher than average at 2.2% per year through 2030.
Patient Blood Management: Impact of Quality Data on Patient OutcomesViewics
Patient blood management (PBM) has been proven to improve patient outcomes and save hospitals millions of dollars. Ensuring the quality of your data is central to decision making and critical to having a strong PBM program.
Would you like to learn how your organization can improve patient outcomes by implementing a PBM program based on accurate data?
If so, view this presentation by blood management expert Lance Trewhella. Lance presents how to develop a successful, evidence-based, multidisciplinary PBM program aimed at optimizing the care of patients who might need transfusion.
You’ll learn:
• Current recommendations for blood transfusion utilization
• The impact of quality data on PBM programs
• Best data practices in PBM
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
Tackling the U.S. Healthcare System’s Infectious Disease Management ProblemViewics
The United States healthcare system has a serious infectious disease management problem. The antibiotic resistance crisis is widespread, serious, costly, and deadly. Delays in pathogen identification lead to poor clinical outcomes, including increased mortality risk. And, optimally managing outbreaks is critical to health systems whose reimbursement is tied to the health of a population, such as ACOs.
Eleanor Herriman, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Viewics led an informative panel discussion with industry leaders on the issues surrounding the infectious disease management crisis. Margret Oethinger, MD, Ph.D., Medical Director of Providence Health & Services, and Susan E. Sharp, Ph.D., DABMM, FAAM, Regional Director of Microbiology and the Molecular Infectious Disease Laboratories, Department of Pathology, Kaiser Permanente and President-Elect, American Society for Microbiology cover the current state of infectious disease management in the U.S., and what can be done to improve it.
You’ll learn about:
• The magnitude of the U.S. health system’s infectious disease management problem
• The most serious concerns and trends for healthcare institutions and communities across the nation
• The most promising solutions to health systems’ most urgent infectious disease management challenges
Dr. Craig J. Lenz - School of Osteopathic MedSamantha Haas
This document discusses barriers to telehealth and opportunities to integrate medical education and telehealth. It describes an early telehealth program in San Bernardino County, California that helped address barriers to care from distance. The document also discusses piloting the use of video conferencing units at a medical school to help deliver certain specialties and clinical education remotely, as well as the potential for students on international clerkships to participate in morning report back at the medical school via laptop or iPad.
This document discusses the need for ongoing training of doctors through continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development (CPD). It outlines several key points:
1) Medical knowledge is constantly evolving, with over 500 new pages published daily, requiring lifelong learning to ensure high quality patient care.
2) CME/CPD helps change doctors' behaviors to align with guidelines, protocols, and best practices through educational, personal, and environmental factors.
3) Saudi Arabia now requires collection of CME hours for recertification, demonstrating the importance placed on ongoing training.
4) King Faisal Specialist Hospital implemented several academic and training activities to improve staff skills and the quality of patient care.
The document analyzes the health care industry in the Cincinnati metropolitan statistical area. It finds that in 2013, the industry employed over 118,000 workers and had an economic impact of over $11 billion including multiplier effects. The industry is projected to add over 35,000 new jobs from 2010 to 2020, but the region's colleges and universities are only graduating about two-thirds of the 34,000 workers needed, leaving a shortage of over 17,000 trained health care professionals. The full report with more detailed analysis is available online.
This document outlines objectives for a customer targeting project for a company called "XXX". It involves identifying potential clients such as medical practices and laboratories that could purchase medical instruments. Key deliverables include a contact database of targets. The document describes analyzing national healthcare data to define target customer profiles and segmentations. It also describes integrating data on healthcare providers and moderate/highly complex clinical laboratories to identify matching targets for direct outreach.
saskdocs Presentation to RM of Eldon april 2013 James Winkel
This document summarizes information presented at a ratepayers meeting about physician recruitment and retention in Saskatchewan. It provides statistics showing growth in the number of physicians in the province in recent years. It outlines recruitment needs projected to 2020 and current recruitment strategies, including targeting Canadian students studying abroad, residents, and international medical graduates. Surveys of medical learners, recently departed physicians, and newly settled physicians are summarized to understand factors impacting recruitment and retention. Stakeholder consultations on incentives identified priorities like work-life balance, family considerations, and developing relationships. The conclusion emphasizes the need for multifaceted solutions from all partners to address physician shortages.
This document provides an overview of hospitalist careers, including definitions, history, workforce facts and trends, recruitment considerations, and factors influencing physician career decisions. It discusses the growth of hospitalists from a few hundred in 1996 to over 30,000 currently practicing in the US. Hospitalists typically work block schedules without taking call and have opportunities in clinical work as well as leadership roles. Recruitment and retention are influenced by lifestyle preferences of younger physicians as well as an aging physician workforce. The document outlines various hospitalist roles and recruitment programs to attract physicians.
Clinical audit for the enlightened ian callanan hslg conference 2013hslgcommittee
This document provides an overview of clinical audit, including:
- Clinical audit aims to systematically review and improve patient care by comparing current practices to standards and research.
- It identifies areas for waste reduction, good practice promotion, and stopping bad practices while improving professional practice, outcomes, and releasing funds for better patient care.
- Successful clinical audits follow a plan-do-check-act cycle, have clear standards and criteria, measure current performance, validate findings, and make appropriate changes to close the loop through re-evaluation.
This document summarizes the results of a patient satisfaction survey conducted at a UCMB hospital in March 2016. Over 200 patients were surveyed across outpatient, inpatient, and HIV/AIDS departments. Key findings include:
- 81% of inpatients felt their condition had improved after treatment
- Over 70% of patients across departments found staff to be kind and respectful
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This slide presentation answers questions about a Pharmacy Technician career. What are the basic salary ranges? How do you grow in your career? What sort of areas can you specialize in?
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This document provides an overview of the second edition of the textbook "Clinical Laboratory Management". It lists the editors and contributors to the book. The book contains six sections that cover basic concepts in laboratory management, management functions, relevant economic concepts, current challenges to financial stability, regulatory requirements, and the changing practice of medicine. It addresses topics like leadership, decision making, ethics, planning, organizing, controlling, the economy, marketing, customer service, workforce issues, regulations, and technological advances. The textbook serves as a comprehensive reference for laboratory management professionals.
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The document summarizes key findings from a study on physician retention in rural Michigan communities. It discusses the importance of professional satisfaction, competent medical support staff, and open communication with hospital administration as retention factors. For personal/family retention, safety of the community, comfortable lifestyle, and adequate leisure time were most important. The document also provides a sample rural physician retention plan and tool with steps for onboarding and supporting new physicians.
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1. Other sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook*
• Patient care
• Administrative and front office duties
• Record and measure vital signs
• Phlebotomy
• Equipment sterilization
• EKGs
• Radiography
INTERESTED
IN BECOMING
A MEDICAL
ASSISTANT?
The growth outlook of select jobs over the next 10 years?
23.5%
18.7%
16%
6.4%
-5%
-15.3%
Medical
Assistant
Veterinary
Technician
Registered
Nurse
Carpenters
Metal &
Plastic
Workers
Fast
Food
Cooks
LOOKING AHEAD
WHERE DO
MEDICAL
ASSISTANTS
WORK?
WHAT DO MEDICAL
ASSISTANTS DO?
0
5K
10K
15K
20K
25K
30K
WHAT’S THE AVERAGE SALARY
FOR SOME SIMILAR JOBS
Medical
Assistant
Nursing
Assistants
Veterinary
Assistants
Home
Health
Aides
Childcare
Workers
Waiters &
Waitresses
Physician
offices
59%
Hospitals
15%
Other
26%
• Dressing changes
• Injections
• Preparation of lab specimens
• Suture removal
AND MUCH MORE...
WHAT LEVEL OF EDUCATION DO
MEDICAL ASSISTANTS HAVE?
Certificate
or diploma
(OFFERED AT IBMC COLLEGE)
43%
High School
or less25%
Associate’s
degree
(OFFERED AT
IBMC COLLEGE)
22%
Bachelor’s
degree or
higher
10%
Medical Assistants
EMTs
Radiological Technologist
Phlebotomists
Veterinary Technician
Orderlies
591,300
241,200
197,000
112,700
95,600
53,000
HOW MANY PEOPLE WORK IN
THESE JOBS NATIONWIDE?
Data gathered from respective schools’ Consumer Information and Disclosures webpages, 2/12/2016
STUDENTS WORKING IN THEIR CAREERS
Percent of graduates from similar programs employed in their field
after they finish school.
IBMC College (diploma)
IBMC College (degree)
Everest College - Colo. Springs (certificate)
PIMA Medical Institute (certificate)
Everest College - Thornton (certificate)
College America (degree)
CO & WY Medical Specialties
93%
89%
75%
74%
69%
73%
To find out more information about how you can start
working toward your career in this growing field visit:
or call 1-800-NEWCAREERwww.ibmc.edu