Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Each year, ECRI (the ECRI Institute) publishes an annual report on the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for the year. The 2025 list was published today. Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025.

Patient Safety 77

Patient Safety Discharges Diagnostics Acute Care 77

EvidenceCare

MARCH 18, 2025

Ep 25 ViVE 2025 Conversations on Healthcare Innovation Rethinking the Care Journey For Dr. Aaron Wilcox, a general surgeon and care transformation leader at Kaiser, the concept of a patients care journey has evolved beyond simply moving them from one stage to the next. Some quotes have been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.

Hospital 130

Hospital Discharges Appointments Patient Safety 130

Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Assessing communication and collaboration.

Hospice 52

Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Follow-Up Documentation 52

Accepted Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

The 2025 ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) application follows on last year’s restructured application, with a few changes. As in the 2024 ERAS, rather than including every relevant experience you’ve had, as you might on a CV, you must choose ten experience entries that communicate who you are and what’s most important to you.

Admissions 52

Admissions Follow-Up Medication Communication 52

Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

I listened in on a discussion of these findings on 10th March when Edelman released the findings in the report, The Unseen Impacts of COVID: a 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer Special Report. I’ve pulled several slides from the report to share part of the plotline with you, and encourage you to read the entire report.

Collaboration 71

Collaboration Communication Patient Safety Patient Experience 71

Connect Care Bytes Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As previously posted , Provincial Enterprise Imaging (PEI) is replacing the IMPAX system as the new Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS). The next phase of implementation was originally scheduled for March 4, 2025 in Edmonton Zone. However, PEI implementation in the Central Zone has revealed new issues in the PEI system.

Patient Safety 40

Patient Safety Scheduling Communication 40

Connect Care Bytes Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

As previously posted , Provincial Enterprise Imaging (PEI) is replacing the IMPAX system as the new Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS). The next phase of implementation was originally scheduled for January 21, 2025 in Central Zone. However, last week PEI experienced two unexpected outages affecting North Zone operations.

Patient Safety 40

Patient Safety Scheduling Communication 40