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Communication (12)

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Rocks in My Shoes: 3 Obstacles Charge Nurses Face [Part 2 of 3]

EDITOR'S NOTE: Special thanks to Greg Brown, MN, RN, for writing today's blog post. You can connect with him on LinkedIn. Last week, I introduced the first of three main obstacles I've identified in...

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Miscommunication Kills. Here's What Pulsara's CEO is Doing About That [Podcast]

Medical errors in healthcare kill about 400,000 people per year secondary to medical error. On top of that, you have 10,000 serious medical complications every single day, which affects 1 in 5...

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FirstNet 101 — What is it? And, How Does it Affect Healthcare?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Pulsara recently spent at day at the FirstNet Innovation Lab in Boulder Colorado where Pulsara is now installed. The Lab is a centralized location to showcase the capabilities of...

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How Simple Miscommunications Can Cost A Life

I recently heard a story about a STEMI patient that really drove home the magnitude of healthcare's communication problem. In this case, a member of the care team had administered a medication, and...

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Playing Telephone During Transitions of Care

Dr. Christopher Johnson recently authored an article about the Dangerous Game of Telephone in Hospitals. In the article, he describes his experience as an attending physician where hospital staff...

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How One Group is Trying to Shift the Digital Health Focus Away From Dollars and on to Patients

$23.8 billion has flowed into the digital health industry over the last 7 years. But more often than not, tech startups focus more on dollars than on people impacted by their services. That's why --...

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Inconsistencies in Processes of Care Result in Variable Survival Rates for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. 

Recently, the AHA released recommendations that cardiac resuscitation systems of care be put in place and should involve "interconnected community, emergency medical services, and hospital efforts to...

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