Most health systems have built programs that deliver results for specific populations: cancer patients, high-risk cardiology cases, post-discharge transitions. The harder question: what happens to everyone else? Rising-risk patients with one or two chronic conditions often cycle through primary care…
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Referrals are one of the highest-volume workflows in healthcare and one of the most broken. In one large health system study, only about 54 percent of inbound internal referrals were completed. That gap represents more than lost revenue. It reflects…
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Workplace violence and safety concerns continue to rise across healthcare settings, placing new pressure on clinical, operational and security leaders to adopt more connected, technology-driven approaches. In this discussion, executives from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, CHRISTUS Health, Integris Health and…
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Roy E. Alston, PhD
Vice President, Security And Public Safety, CHRISTUS Health
Damon Blankenbaker
Workplace Violence and Public Safety Manger, Integris Health
Jeanne Venella, DNP, MS, CEN, CPEN
Senior Clinical Advisor, Canopy
Elizabeth Sparks, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Senior Director, Medicine Patient Care Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
For decades, paralysis after spinal cord injury was largely treated as permanent. Patients might regain limited function through rehabilitation, adaptive devices or physical therapy, but once movement was lost, surgeons had few options to restore it. Justin Brown, MD, believes…
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third leading cause of cardiovascular death after heart attack and stroke, yet receives far less institutional attention than either. Nearly 900,000 Americans are affected by VTE each year, and an estimated 100,000 die annually. The…
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Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Children’s and Norton Leatherman Spine partnered to launch Norton Children’s Leatherman Spine, a pediatric specialty practice focused on spinal conditions, according to a May 11 report by The Lane Report. The practice will provide care for conditions…
R. Michael Meneghini, MD, once spent years driving three hours a day just to continue practicing orthopedic surgery. Every morning, he left his home before dawn, drove an hour and a half to work outside the geographic boundaries of a…
Marc Philippon, MD, is the managing partner of The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., and chairman of the Steadman Philippon Research Institute, where he also serves as director of the sports medicine fellowship and director of hip research. Dr. Philippon…
Jared Ament, MD, of Santa Monica-based Neurosurgery & Spine Group has pioneered two new approaches to spine surgery in the last year. He was involved with the world’s first clinical case combining Premia Spine’s Tops and Centinel Spine Prodisc-L implants…
Shifting workforce dynamics, accelerating technology adoption and mounting financial pressure are testing the foundations of orthopedic care. Leaders from across the field shared what concerns them most about where the specialty is headed, and what’s at stake for patients and…
