By David R. Burda – I thought of my dad’s approach to fishing when I was reading a new report from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and why we fail to take the same approach to reducing healthcare costs.
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From the AHRQ Blog – Just over 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine released two seminal reports on the need to improve healthcare quality—one on healthcare disparities, another that emphasized the promise of digital healthcare technologies. Since then, healthcare technology has made significant strides.
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By Chris Dymek EdD – We know that digital healthcare technologies hold the promise of advancing healthcare quality, safety, and effectiveness. Improving performance in each of these areas is critical to AHRQ’s mission. But without rigorous research, we can’t determine which digital technologies truly help deliver better patient care.
The healthcare industry is not in short supply of changes that need to be made. This week’s Friday at Five highlights some industry reports lighting the way for better health data exchange, patient experience, health equity, interoperability, and social determinants of health to name a few.
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of November that we think deserve sharing again.
This month’s roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry from Clarify Health, Brightside Health, The Black Book, Healthcare.com, HHS, Kyruus, Turquoise Health, and more.
By David Meyers MD & Brent Sandmeyer MPH – Climate change is widely regarded as the number one threat to human health, increasing the destructive power of storms like Hurricane Ian and the frequency and duration of heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts.
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA – Too many Americans have experienced the health-related consequences and anxieties that follow a diagnostic error – a diagnosis that is either delayed, poorly communicated, or just plain wrong.