The data on COVID-19 doesn’t look good. A recent USA Today analysis showed that nearly 80% of the states reported more coronavirus cases than they had in the week before. Nine states set seven-day ...

Managing doctor-caregiver relations when a loved one is not well, or is dying, can be challenging for overwhelmed, emotional ...

The healthcare industry has growing pains. Merger-and-acquisition-fueled expansion is at odds with initiatives to eliminate waste. Physicians juggle larger patient populations with expectations to ...

Language barriers may be particularly harmful in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where families encounter ...

When a large hospital organization in the Southeast gathered doctors, nurses, first responders, state police and the National Guard to run mass casualty drills, things did not go as planned. The ...

Okay, so my aunt had surgery last spring. Hip replacement. She was in the hospital for about four days. I visited her a bunch and started noticing these whiteboards in every single room. Healthcare ...

There are few environments where rapid, reliable communication is as essential as in the healthcare markets. Providers face a host of complex and time-sensitive situations that often require fast ...

Seconds matter in healthcare. A patient who experiences a stroke, for example, has a lower chance of functional independence and an increased likelihood of mortality when treatment is delayed. The ...

What patients need from providers and hospitals, even more than convenience and affordability, is clear and direct communication from their healthcare organization, according to the 2024 National ...

Healthcare communication costs trust, which is essential for good patient care. That loss of trust also translates to tangible healthcare costs. “During our first conversation, all I could think about ...

Language barriers may be particularly harmful in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), where families encounter ...