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Public Health Insider
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Healthcare systems in the Puget Sound region have updated their joint guidelines for masking in hospitals and outpatient clinics during respiratory illness season.
The Health Care Blog
JANUARY 27, 2025
By EMILY JOHNSON Imagine you’re an executive at a large health system in a major metropolitan area. The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals. Their family is furious.
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Smart Data Collective
JULY 25, 2019
The healthcare industry is happily embracing big data. Hospitals around the world are finding that data can have a profound impact on their operations. A lot of the emphasis so far has been on the use of big data to better engage with external third-parties, but big data can be equally valuable for managing internal hospital systems.
Association of Health Care Journalists
MARCH 19, 2025
While the number of transplants for Black and Hispanic recipients grew slightly in 2024 compared to 2023 , these modest gains havent erased the deep-rooted inequities in the system. A previous study of over 42,000 kidney transplant candidates found similar racial disparities especially for patients with complex immune system profiles.
NC Health News
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Though HCA made improvements to the western North Carolina health care system, according to the Wake Forest University report, many were already planned or required by then-Attorney General Josh Stein as part of the terms of the sale. [I]t The decision to sell the nonprofit system to the largest for-profit hospital owner in the U.S.
The Health Care Blog
MARCH 17, 2025
How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain. Hospitals and health systems have also played a significant role in perpetuating opioid dependence.
Your Local Epidemiologist
MARCH 12, 2025
data because measles is now quite rare thanks to vaccination, smaller studies from other high-income countries with similarly low levels of vitamin A deficiency suggest vitamin A doesn’t make much of a difference for measles: A study of hospitalized measles patients in Italy found no effect of vitamin A treatment on outcomes.
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