Social Media Ideas for Healthcare Safety

Fire Protection for Healthcare Facilities: Fire safety, designed to care for every space.

Healthcare facilities never stop. Hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and nursing homes operate around the clock, supporting patients who depend on continuous care. In these environm...

4 Steps to Secure the Healthcare Data Supply Chain!

Data security has become a major concern over the last few years. It’s the responsibility of every sector, including the Healthcare Data Supply Chain, to ensure they secure their s...

The Evidence Effect: How AHRQ Helped Hospitals Reduce Harm and Improve Patient Safety

The Evidence Effect: How AHRQ Helped Hospitals Reduce Harm and Improve Patient Safety When patients enter a hospital, they expect care that is safe, effective, and informed...

Healthcare Quality Improvement with AI: A Governed Prompt for Patient Safety and Clinical Operations

<figure data-wp-context="{"imageId":"6aafff4ed2057"}" data-wp-interactive="core/image" data-wp-key="6aafff4ed2057&qu...

AI Weapons Detection in Healthcare: Modernizing Hospital Physical Security

Workplace violence in healthcare facilities has become so prevalent that hospital workers in several states have gone on strike. Healthcare staff make up 10% of the U.S. workforce...

Keys to Ensuring Data Privacy, Security, and Regulatory Compliance in Consumer-Facing Healthcare Applications

No matter what aspect or model of healthcare we talk about, privacy, security, and compliance remain the top concerns. Today we are going to focus on these top concerns in relation...

Workplace violence in health care needs a national standard

My foot slid on something wet as I entered the medical/surgical unit. Glancing down, I wondered vaguely who had spilled cranberry juice before registering the red droplets for what...

Q&A: Texas hospital safety. Why the fight isn’t over

On this edition of "Inside the Investigation" – an extended discussion first featured in the latest episode of our weekly investigative program, "Cause & Effect" – KXAN’s Arezo...

Congressional Action on Health Care Cybersecurity: HISAA is Re-Introduced and the Health Care Cybersecurity and Resilie...

Caring should never come with a threat

Bill S-233 would send an overdue message to Canada’s healthcare workers: violence is not part of the job. A healthcare worker’s shift should end when they leave the hospital. For s...

FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT

 🏗️ FUNDAMENTALS OF HEALTH & SAFETY MANAGEMENT 📌 Safety isn't just about preventing accidents — it's about seeing and stopping risks BEFORE they cause harm. ✅ Ma...

Valley Health System adds Yodice as Patient Safety Officer

Valley Health System announced Sept. 17 that it has welcomed Paul C. Yodice, MD, FCCP, FCCM, as its Patient Safety Officer. In this role, Dr. Yodice will work with physicians, nurs...

How to Clean Up Blood Spills at Work: OSHA Standards

For anyone in the healthcare industry, blood is often a fact of the job. It’s also one of the biggest hazards healthcare workers face on a regular basis, since so much can be trans...

Elevance Health Foundation launched a prize program for patient safety initiatives. Here's why

The Elevance Health Foundation has launched a new prize program aimed at supporting solutions aimed at improving patient safety, with the first crop of winners targeting challenges...

Top Healthcare Virtual Assistance Providers Assessed on Security

Medical practices are outsourcing admin work faster than their security programmes can keep up. Scheduling, intake, billing, EMR updates, all of it moving to remote assistants who...

How Secure Is Patient Data with a Healthcare Virtual Assistant?

The security of patient data with healthcare virtual assistants depends on the arrangement, not their location. Factors like HIPAA compliance, encryption, role-based access, and re...

After KXAN investigation, Texas lawmaker plans new push for hospital safety

Texas hospitals could face new safety requirements after KXAN’s reporting exposed risks that contributed to a deadly Austin crash and revealed similar concerns across the country. 

Hacking the Healers: New KnowBe4 Whitepaper Highlights Record Security Breaches in Healthcare

When an organization has a security breach, it can cause significant financial, reputational and logistical damage. But in healthcare, where patient lives are on the line, the cons...

How Healthcare Organizations Manage Vulnerabilities

Healthcare organizations manage some of the most operationally sensitive environments in modern enterprise IT, where a security gap can directly affect patient care. As attack surf...

Three Weeks to Act on a Nurse’s Patient Safety Concerns

For three weeks after his surgery, a patient at the Royal Oldham Hospital (England) had no bowel movement and was in increasing pain. The ward sister kept raising patient safety co...

Human factors in health care start with better design

I very recently started work at a new hospital as part of a yearly rotation while in training. This hospital has a fire board with the names of staff, followed by two small circles...

Healthcare's Risk Surface is Expanding Faster than Most Compliance Programs

AI, cybersecurity and third-party dependencies are expanding healthcare’s risk surface. Learn why modern governance models must evolve with the risk landscape.

A Regulatory Blind Spot Hiding in Plain Sight

By JUSTIN MCKAY When I’m brought back into the diagnostic area, one of the first things I see is a lead apron, well-worn and folded into itself, about ready to slide offContinue re...

The Healthcare Luminary: Modern Lighting Solutions in Hospital Management!

Hospital management has always been an intricate puzzle that balances cost-effectiveness, quality of care, and patient satisfaction. Among the factors that contribute to a well-man...