Photo: Dean Mitchell/Getty Images Burnout among nurses is linked to worse patient safety, and lower healthcare quality and satisfaction, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. Aggregating and reviewing more than 80 different studies on the issue, researchers found that nurse burnout resulted in lower safety grades and contributed to an overall…
The new National Radiology Data Registry announced this week by the American College of Radiology is capable of monitoring AI results and collecting an array of contextual information such as patient data, clinical metadata and radiology report results. It’s intended to compare individual radiology practice results against aggregated national performance benchmarks from other sites using…
The symplr 2024 Compass Survey highlights some key challenges that healthcare organizations are grappling with – and its findings suggest a need for systemic change. One of the biggest revelations is 85% of clinicians and the majority of respondents in all three functional areas report losing more than an hour each day to administrative tasks….
Colorado is densely populated across the front range of Denver and Colorado Springs. After leaving the Denver Metropolitan Area and the I-25 corridor, one is quickly in areas that are sparsely populated, where people are accustomed to traveling many hours to access healthcare specialty expertise. THE PROBLEM Even in some larger population areas, certain medical…
