Saturday, April 22, 2023

< + > Ground Beef Burger Recall: 2,122 Pounds After Complaints Of Rubber-Like Material

The recall was issued by Weinstein Wholesale Meats, Inc., according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

< + > Latest England Nurse Strike May Be Against The Law

A legal battle may put nurses’ plans to strike on hold in England, following months of industrial action.

< + > Bay Area Hospital Reinstitutes Face Mask Mandate After Covid-19 Outbreak

This came just a few weeks after the California Department of Public Health basically went bye-bye to all remaining statewide masks mandates on April 3.

Friday, April 21, 2023

< + > 3M to partner with AWS to leverage AI for clinical documentation

By leveraging ML and artificial intelligence services, 3M will expedite, refine and scale the delivery of its real-time speech recognition platform, the company says.

< + > NFL's Damar Hamlin at HIMSS23: 'We have to keep doing the work'

Just three months after his frightening, nationally televised cardiac arrest, the Buffalo Bills safety was cleared to play this week. He spoke at HIMSS23 about lessons learned during his recovery. 

< + > Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi: Recession risk is high, but not inevitable

A healthy healthcare industry is key to keeping inflation down and avoiding recession, Zandi said at HIMSS23 on Friday. Despite workforce challenges and cost pressures, he's optimistic AI and automation can help boost productivity.

< + > Tracking the Patient Experience Using Qualtrics at Intermountain Health

We all benefit from sharing our concerns communally. “What, you had the same problem I did?” We say to a friend. “How did you handle it?”

Intermountain Health, provider with 33 hospitals about 400 clinics, wanted to cull information of that type from the many interactions they have with patients—32 million phone calls in Utah alone, according to chief strategy officer Dan Liljenquist.

So Intermountain Health is adopting tools from Qualtrics, a company that analyzes interpersonal communications to “surface customer friction.” Liljenquist says that Intermountain Health plans to use this information to “reduce friction points.”

Although Intermountain Health is a leader in many kinds of medical treatment and patient safety, like most health systems they knew they had room to improve the overall patient experience, but they didn’t have a systematic way to gather all the information about the patient experience from their patient call centers, and they believe Qualtrics can provide that data.

Furthermore, Intermountain Health wants to build customer preferences into each individual’s record so that every caregiver the patient meets with understands fully what they need and where they are on their patient journey.

See this short video for Liljenquist’s description of the new Intermountain Health initiative with Qualtrics to better listen to patients and improve the patient experience.

Learn more about Intermountain Health: https://intermountainhealthcare.org/

Learn more about Qualtrics: https://www.qualtrics.com/

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