Quality and Safety
For patients referred for an in-person specialty care visit, the median wait time decreased from 50 days before eConsult to 28 days with similar results for high-urgency patients.
Thirty-day hospital readmission risk has become an important measure of the quality of hospital care, and is closely tied to reimbursement.
At issue were infection control violations, which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services described as "significant."
The readmission rates of top performing facilities were similar to, and in some cases greater than, the rates posted by unranked hospitals.
Cleveland Clinic came in first, and has been in the top 10 in the ranking for the past three years.
Case study: Grady Health used an AI machine to generate which patients were most at risk of coming back to them within 30 days, and then dispatched EMS staff to visit them.
Students have challenged the traditional approach to education, saying it is not a realistic representation of a nurse's actual workload.
With fewer nurses on the floor and the risk of falls and other issues ever-present, more hospitals are training digital eyes on their patients.
Northwell stays vigilant on ER numbers as turkey meat contaminated with salmonella is under a recall.
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