A group of staffers at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle began what would turn out to be an eye-opening experience with a ball of blue yarn. They started unspooling it to illustrate the path a cancer patient would take on a typical visit for chemotherapy treatment. Their story is told in an episode of the […]
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Health care and sports have more in common than you might think, especially in regard to performance and workflow improvement. Improving performance in both depends on analyzing the movements and locations of your team members and making adjustments to achieve better outcomes, whether those outcomes are victories in games or reduced adverse events in health
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My wife was hospitalized recently and, while spending time with her, I couldn’t help but notice how much time the nurses and doctors spent looking at their computer screens. I know hospital leaders are looking for ways to reduce the time clinicians spend on technology-related tasks, but seeing nurses absorbed in computer work when I
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In an acknowledgement of electronic compliance monitoring becoming an “important component of a comprehensive hand hygiene program,” the Leapfrog Group added electronic monitoring to its hand hygiene practice standards for 2019. Identified as a primary intervention to prevent healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), high rates of hand hygiene compliance can reduce HAIs (Kelly et al., 2016; Pronovost
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Understanding the real-time workflow patterns of your nurses is crucial toward achieving high reliability in health care. Through their movements during the course of each shift, nurses provide insights that can be used to improve patient safety and quality. New workflow monitoring technology can track their movements and engage their support in patient safety, quality
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