Insights
Does your Risk/QI Program Make You Happy?
Not, "are you happy with it." But, does it actually make you happy? Does it make your job easier and is it improving healthcare quality in...
Hospital Quality Initiatives Save Nearly $1.5B
In 2012, more than 1,500 hospitals participated with the Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) in an initiative aimed at reducing harm and cutting...
A Tale of Reinvention
Have you heard the news? Nurses want to spend more time with their patients. Let’s see… it’s 2014 and we are still challenged with an issue that has...
Who ‘Hawthorned’ the Data?
Remember learning about the Hawthorne Effect? It’s a phenomenon first described by Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger, published in the late 1930s,...
Demand for “intelligence” in HC IT is catching on
A discussion on LinkedIn recently opened around an article by John Glaser, PhD, CEO of health services for Siemens Healthcare. He recently spoke at...
Better Medicine Through Improv
What is the number one factor that everyone talks about when it comes to improving patient outcomes? Hands down it’s good patient communication....
Quality in the Halls
Beyond the monthly or quarterly Quality Improvement meetings where we show up to either strut our collective performance achievements or gingerly...
2014 Texas CAH Conference & Tradeshow
The Prista team is looking forward to attending and exhibiting at this year’s Texas CAH Critical Access Hospital Conference & Tradeshow. The...
Hospital CEO Turnover – lack of tools for a key responsibility ?
A recent article in Hospital Dive "Hospital CEO turnover: A symptom of a greater sickness?", touched on some real problems that are actually...