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. Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. The 2025 list was published today.

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Patient Safety Discharges Diagnostics Acute Care 77

Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

Because of these ongoing trends, healthcare organizations and the nursing community must work collaboratively to find ways to examine the link between the nursing shortage and patient safety. Patient safety is a fundamental goal of all health care. Relias Vitals+Vision Podcast Join us as we sit down with Hassan M.

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Patient Safety Unit Organization and Environment Critical Thinking Patient Satisfaction 52

Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Healthcare organizations have been using a quality improvement framework consisting of six attributes — safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable — for decades. Why the Six Domains of Health Care Quality emerged.

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Follow-Up Documentation Billing Acute Care 98

Relias

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As leaders continue to focus on improving quality of care , improving the patient experience, and reducing readmissions, healthcare organizations find an even greater need for an effective onboarding process to ensure nurses are prepared to care for complex patient populations.

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Critical Thinking Patient Experience Communication Acute Care 52

Arkenea

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Patient portal development is one such shift that has heralded a novel era of patient engagement in the healthcare industry. According to a report published by Chime, 83 percent of acute care organizations stated high use of patient portals by users in 2021, as compared to 74 percent in 2020.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 14, 2022

CMS’s Report found that the level of nurse staffing is associated with patient safety, patient functional status, and patient experience. Since 2015, SNFs have been required to electronically submit direct care staffing information based on payroll and other auditable data to CMS’s Payroll Based Journal system.

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Long Term Care Certified Nursing Assistant Patient Safety Patient Experience 52

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

With Epic in 38% of acute care hospitals (as of May 2024), their vision of democratizing and validating health AI will also help scale that easy-button for care. Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.

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Unit Organization and Environment Collaboration Documentation Acute Care 71