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The Leader's Role in Optimal Systems of Care

The importance of leadership and culture to improve patient care is cited and emphasized so routinely, it might seem cliché, but it’s nonetheless true: Failures to improve care experience and outcomes are almost always traceable to the top.
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The Vital Role of Executive Rounding in Promoting a Culture of Safety in Hospitals

In the complex, dynamic environment of healthcare, maintaining a culture of safety is of paramount importance.
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The Surprising Benefits of a Patient Blood Management Program

We need to examine a central cause affecting patient outcomes and financial inefficiencies: siloed healthcare software and data.
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Driving Safer Care With Better Margins Through Connected Healthcare Operations

We need to examine a central cause affecting patient outcomes and financial inefficiencies: siloed healthcare software and data.
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Ensuring That Telehealth Equals Quality Care

For reasons of necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare quickly turned to telehealth. This mode of care increased 154% during the early stages of the pandemic and rapidly accelerated to levels 38 times higher than in 2019. Today, the uses of telehealth encompass phone and video consultations, mobile health tools, text messaging portals, remote patient monitoring, tele-diagnostics for imaging and pathology, and more.
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It Starts With a Conversation: Tackling Gender Equity in Healthcare Leadership

Once the healthcare sector’s common challenges are recognized, we as an international hospital leadership community can begin to address them.
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Two Patient Safety Lessons for a Post-Pandemic Age

A strong safety system should allow us to take risks and distinguish what was inevitable from what was avoidable.
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The 2 Big Myths About Using AI in Healthcare

Danielle Walsh, MD, FAAP, FACS, a professor of surgery and vice chair of Surgery for Quality and Process Improvement at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington, believes there are two big myths about using AI in healthcare: that physicians don’t want AI and that patients don’t want AI.
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The Science of Safety Culture

As part of its approach to instilling a comprehensive patient safety culture through continuing education, MedStar Health, Columbia, Md., has built an extensive internal simulation program over the past two decades with three large simulation labs, a mobile simulation center and vans that bring simulation equipment into its hospital and outpatient environments.
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Improving Patient Care and Safety With AI

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