Sources of hospital onset bacteremia (HOB), its identification, how effectively HOB can be prevented, treated and considerations for quality metrics.
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Costly innovative cancer treatments and technologies, organizational alignments and shifting sites of care are changing the way care is delivered.
Strategies to address surgical backlog and use anesthesiologists in leadership positions to optimize perioperative performance and OR efficiency.
Best practices, successes and challenges in engaging our communities in digital strategy to maximize success in health care.
Best practices health care organizations use to engage and support their workforce during capital projects and times of operational disruption.
To increase surgical capacity, hospitals are investing in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and using technology improve efficiency and outcomes.
Effective laboratory stewardship programs promote evidence-based care to improve patient experience, quality metrics and lower health care costs.
Faced with severe workforce shortages and staff burnout, health leaders are looking at ways to engage employees and improve well-being and health.
Health systems are adopting innovative ways to collect and use performance data to build patient-centered and high-value care delivery models.
To enable consumer engagement and care coordination, health systems are using digital transformation develop consumer-focused models of care.
The value-based care initiatives providers are prioritizing and best practices health systems are employing in the transition to risk-based models.
To provide frictionless digital consumer-like experiences, health systems are using digital transformation to improve operations and care.
Using a mobile-first approach to improve patient-provider communication. The digital front door is a shift toward a new and dynamic way of managing the patient experience.
The move to the cloud and the use of electronic health records has multiplied the number of third parties with access to a hospital’s sensitive data
The COVID-19 pandemic’s crushing impact on well-being and mental health has further exacerbated the burnout crisis among clinicians.
Responding to extreme weather events, financial crises, national and local disruptions and the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals and health systems face chronic stresses that continually challenge their performance and ability to adapt.
Clinical documentation plays a critical role in providing, coordinating and paying for care.
An influx of critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on health care systems, with many infection-prevention resources diverted to outbreak management.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront health inequities and further highlighted how societal factors influence health.
Clinical Laboratories at Duke University Health System quickly ramped up their testing capacity in the face of a surging pandemic