G. M. Wardlaw, R. Wong, C. Boylan, R. Rebello, and M. D. Noseworthy Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Brain-Body Institute, St. Josephs Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Dept. of Oncology, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Dept. of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Josephs Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Electrical and Computer Engi...

Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Rockville, Maryland, USA U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease ...

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Wavre, Belgium Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA The University of Adelaide, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia PATH, Seattle, WA, USA Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom Novartis Healthcare, Hyderabad, India Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA Ha...

PARADIGM Akshay Mohan, Rosalind Picard The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 20 Ames Street, Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA {amohan, picard}@media.mit.edu Abstract The paper describes Health0: an innovative healthcare and lifestyle management wearable system that aims to bring an individual focused approach to healthcare. A modular architecture is proposed that combines a Lin...

I am sure you’ve heard about the triple aim introduced by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement —improving patient experience, reducing cost, and improving the health of a population. I recently discovered that this is being reconsidered, in light of a crucial missing piece – the people who actually are responsible for the patient experience and healthcare. Now conceptualized as the quadrupl...

1 Division of Hematology and Oncology, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA 2 Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA 3 Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA 4 Division of Hematology and...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article is to examine the Institute of Medicine's recommendations, the National Prevention Council Action Plan, the medical home model, and the nursing standards that drive quality for telephone nursing triage. FINDINGS These guidelines require reconceptualizing nursing roles, a commitment to lifelong learning, continued competence, and transformational leadership ...

The Joint Commission and Institute for Healthcare Improvement have mandated healthcare organizations to improve professional communication. Nursing students lack experience in communicating with physicians. As a result, recent graduates may not be prepared to meet the demands of professional communication to ensure patient safety. The authors discuss the SBAR (situation, background, assessment,...

In 2021, the sociological service of State Budgetary Institution «Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management Moscow Department» celebrates its 5th anniversary; this article partly reflects on experience gained during operation. The examines current challenges medical sociology in healthcare management, among which are need to change present work culture with feedback,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed healthcare services around the world beyond their limits. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published rapid guideline: critical care in adults: NICE guideline [NG159] which advised clinicians on maximising efficiency supporting