From the AHRQ Blog – AHRQ funding opportunities aim to address today’s essential challenges in advancing and improving healthcare delivery. However, this one may carry particular weight because we believe that effective, safe AI use has the potential to profoundly change American healthcare.
By Aimee Eden PhD MPH & Tess Miller Dr PH – Primary care is foundational to good health and well-being, providing services that span preventive care to diagnosis and treatment. Access to comprehensive primary care improves patient and population health outcomes across the lifespan.
By Pamela Miller MPH BSN RN -Nurses continue to be the cornerstone of patient care in the dynamic healthcare landscape. Yet, despite their critical contributions, many nurses face challenges in receiving adequate compensation. This disparity affects individual financial health and impacts the entire healthcare system through increased turnover and burnout.
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA & Pamela Owens PhD – The human suffering caused by sepsis is shocking. New AHRQ analyses show that in 2021, more than 2 million Americans—roughly equivalent to the population of Phoenix, Arizona—were hospitalized with sepsis, 300,000 lives were lost, and hospital costs exceeded $52 billion.
By Art Gross – As artificial intelligence revolutionizes industries, organizations face the challenge of integrating these technologies responsibly and effectively. Developing a comprehensive AI policy is a crucial step in this process, offering numerous advantages that ensure AI-driven initiatives are beneficial, ethical, and sustainable.
By Chris Dymek EdD – Providing healthcare consumers with evidence-based insights and practical guidelines can create value for patients, their families, clinicians and healthcare systems.
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 September that we think deserve sharing again.
By Ainsley Lawrence – No healthcare provider is an island. Healthcare services require a large and diverse team, and plenty of organizations struggle to find and retain the staff they need to ensure patients receive the care they deserve. Fortunately, there is a solution to healthcare’s perennial staffing woes: technology.
From KFF News Network – Their latest podcast, ‘An Arm And A Leg’, This week, Caitlyn Mai thought she did everything right. She called ahead to make sure her insurer would cover her cochlear implant surgery. She thought everything went according to plan but she still got a bill for the full cost of the surgery: more than $139,000.
House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy is a podcast hosted by the 21st U.S. Surgeon General. In this episode the Surgeon General speaks with award-winning journalist and author of “The Perfect Storm,” and “Tribe,” Sebastian Junger.
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 August that we think deserve sharing again.
Contagious Conversations is a podcast hosted and brought to you by the CDC Foundation. This episode is hosted by Dr. Judy Monroe, President and CEO of the CDC Foundation & joining her are Dr. Dan Filardo, Dr. Michael Osterholm, and Dr. Alexander Sloboda to discuss the true cost of getting sick.
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