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Telehealth Encourages Healthcare and the Public to Embrace Innovation

  As we head into the second half of 2020, many of the temporary flexibilities for telehealth allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic have been made permanent. Since its arrival in

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COVID-19 is Revealing the Link Between Patient Experience and Safety

COVID-19 is forcing our healthcare system to make impossible choices, but these decisions are necessary because the best way to keep patients comfortable right now is to keep them safe.

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Medical Errors – 20 years After To Err Is Human

One of the most referenced and influential reports on raising awareness of the patient safety crisis in the United States marked its 20th anniversary this fall. The Institute of Medicine

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Workarounds in Healthcare

A recent New York Times op-ed offers that the prevalence of workarounds is an indication of the overall dysfunction of the American healthcare system, going as far as to indicate

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There’s No Room for a Bad Attitude in the Surgical Suite

Why do doctors have such a reputation for being jerks? Is it the better surgeon they are, the bigger the ego? While this perception isn’t always true, dealing with a

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Common Threats and Pain Points to a Successful Credentialing Program

Healthcare leaders and health systems are no greater than their workforce – including their physician network. Regardless of a physician’s employment status, their engagement, understanding of the strategic vision and

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Achieving High Reliability in America’s Most Dangerous Industry

TripleTree, the country’s largest healthcare merchant bank providing investment banking services, posed the question on their latest blog, “what does a culture of safety in healthcare look like?” Provoked by

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Safety Audit Rounds for a High Reliability Organization: The Importance

When was the last time you found something that was twice as good? How about 3 times as good? 10 times? You’d probably consider that to be a pretty significant

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The Race to the South Pole

In late 1911, Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, was determined to be the first explorer to reach the South Pole. However, he wasn’t the only one. Robert Scott, a British

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How to Avoid the “Bang” in Healthcare – Verge Health

The healthcare sector is complex by nature. Physicians aren’t necessarily employed by hospitals, so the level of internal communication needed to generate better data is often not there. Since medical

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