Measuring risk preferences over health states – Healthcare Economist
[ad_1] This is the goal of a paper by Yang et al. (2022) out in Health Economics. They first provide a nice review of the literature and divide the methodologies around risk taking into type types. I briefly summarize that literature below. Direct methods. These methods may ask individuals about their attitude toward risk or […]
ECRI’s top 10 patient safety list highlights staff shortages
[ad_1] Staff shortages and workers’ mental health are top patient safety concerns that health system executives must tackle, according to ECRI’s annual Top Ten Patient Safety Concerns for 2022. The report usually focuses on clinical problems like diagnostic errors or cybersecurity attacks. While those issues still exist, the pandemic disrupted health system operations during the […]
California aims to limit healthcare costs with new office
[ad_1] Frustrated by how much they were paying for healthcare, two groups of California workers sued one of the nation’s largest hospital systems. One group secured a half-billion-dollar settlement. The other lost in court. Both cases took nearly a decade to resolve, highlighting the difficulty patients and their employers often face when trying to corral […]
U of Vermont Medical Center seeks to build staff housing
[ad_1] The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington plans to build housing for its employees in South Burlington as a way to help ease its workforce shortage. The hospital is working with a developer to build 61 apartment units for full-time medical staff. The hospital says there is a severe workforce shortage facing the […]
Providence’s Aaron Martin confirms he’s returning to Amazon
[ad_1] Providence chief digital officer Aaron Martin is returning to Amazon after spending nearly six years at the Catholic-based health system. Martin has led Providence Ventures, overseeing the health system’s $300 million health tech fund. Under Martin, Providence has spun out two digital health companies from its digital innovation group and invested in a number […]
For kids with COVID-19, everyday life can be a struggle
[ad_1] Eight-year-old Brooklynn Chiles fidgets on the hospital bed as she waits for the nurse at Children’s National Hospital. The white paper beneath her crinkles as she shifts to look at the medical objects in the room. She’s had the coronavirus three times, and no one can figure out why. Brooklynn’s lucky, sort of. Each […]
Healthcare Design Opens Nominations For 2022 Professional Awards Programs
[ad_1] Healthcare Design announces its 2022 professional recognition programs to celebrate industry members making a difference in our field: The HCD 10 and Rising Star awards. This year, nominations for the two programs will be open simultaneously, with a shared deadline of Monday, April 18. Nominations to both programs may be made by industry professionals […]
Atrium Health, French surgical institute partner on innovation district
[ad_1] Atrium Health is working with IRCAD, a French-based surgical research and training institute, to form the organization’s first North American headquarters and create a space where surgeons can practice performing safer procedures. The research building will be constructed in Charlotte, NC’s new innovation district, called “The Pearl,” next to the Wake Forest University School […]
DirectTrust launches patient information exchange standard-setting group
[ad_1] DirectTrust created an initiative to review and develop standards that could facilitate a voluntary patient credentialing and matching system. The initiative will form the Privacy-Enhancing Health Record Locator Service Ecosystem standard, which will define a model that either the private or public sector could deploy to ensure secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of health information, […]
The Architecture Facts and Figures
[ad_1] Tallying up the details of firms by their revenue, office locations, staff size, services, and more, the annual Almanac of Architecture & Design, produced by the Greenway Group is now available and it makes for interesting reading.This almanac gives comprehensive information about top arch… Healthcare Subscriber Active Campaign [ad_2] Source link
In Service: Children’s National Hospital
[ad_1] When the Building 52 medical ward opened in the 1930s on the campus of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, the multistory building featured open-air sleeping porches for Army personnel suffering from tuberculosis. (Fresh air and sunshine were widely prescribed ways to help rid the body of the infectious disease affecting the […]
China battles multiple outbreaks, driven by stealth omicron
[ad_1] China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country’s biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago. The National Health Commission reported 1,337 locally transmitted cases in the latest 24-hour period, including 895 in the industrial […]