Professional satisfaction is a powerful driver of quality of care, the patient experience and wise resource use, and as a result is of critical importance to health system leaders and practicing physicians alike. Improvements in clinical workflow, teamwork and leadership communication are among the most potent anecdotes to the burnout which is widespread in healthcare. […]
To combat limited access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) of opioid use disorder (OUD) in rural areas, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed Telemedicine and Prescribing Buprenorphine for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder to help clarify how clinicians can use telemedicine as a tool to
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published best practices on using the health care physical environment to prevent infections. Using the Health Care Physical Environment to Prevent and Control Infection: A Best Practice Guide to Help Health Care Organizations Create Safe, Healing Environments contains best practices,
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Constellation and VITAL WorkLife team up to present recommendations for combatting clinician burnout. In this second of our two-part series, this webinar will discuss VITAL WorkLife’s 2017 Physician and Advanced Practitioner Well Being Solutions Survey, which assesses clinicians’ responses on stress levels and barriers to accessing wellbeing solutions, and reports on the results of their
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A new AHRQ toolkit, Six Building Blocks A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care, aims to help primary care organizations take a team- and system-based approach to improving opioid management. The toolkit, Six Building Blocks, recommends that organizations demonstrate leadership support and develop consensus; revise and implement policies, patient agreements, and workflows;
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Physicians and other health care professionals are a precious resource, and they’re suffering. To make matters worse, when physicians suffer, the downstream effects on patient safety and satisfaction, risk management, staff retention and recruiting are immense, especially in light of impending labor shortages in health care. Constellation and VITAL WorkLife have teamed up to present
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