Nursing handoffs are important to switch patient care from one clinician to another. But patient handoffs can also be chaotic, and chaotic handoff conditions can foster miscommunication. The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Data 2022 Annual Review found that when...
Clinical-facing technology platform can now prompt users to reconsider nomenclature that perpetuates stereotypes among certain patient populations Philadelphia, PA (July 11, 2023) ‒ CareAlign, a digital workflow platform for improving clinical care management, has...
We’ve talked about how unconscious bias, stigmatizing language, and stereotypes can impact patients. But biases impact clinicians, too. Whether it's with supervisors, co-workers, or patients and their families, clinicians are also on the receiving end of biases that...
Clinicians at nursing facilities are busy - caring for patients, collaborating with other clinicians, completing documentation, doing administrative work, tracking down patient information- the list goes on. It’s important that their clinical workflows are efficient,...
The HealthShare Exchange of Southeastern Pennsylvania, or HSX, is a health information exchange (HIE) that serves Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Different healthcare and provider organizations who are members of HSX send and receive key patient data to the...
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A Skilled Nursing Facility, or SNF, is a post-acute care facility where nurses, under the supervision of a medical doctor, provide care to patients as the patient recovers before transitioning home. SNFs have a lot of patients quickly transfer in and out of their...
A health information exchange, or HIE, is an electronic collection of health information that is securely shared among clinicians and health organizations. There are three main forms of HIEs: Directed Exchange, Query-Based Exchange, and Consumer Mediated Exchange. A...
So, you’re in med school. If you’ve just started, congrats! If you’ve already been in school, we hope your semester is going well. Either way, we wanted to share some tips to help make school a little more manageable. 1. Figure Out a Way to Study That Works for You...