Health.Care | An Educational Blog

The Empowered Patient, Step 4: Record Keeping

The Empowered Patient, Step 3: Action

Patients, Staff, Administrators: What Each of Us Can Do to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs)

The Empowered Patient, Step 2: Research

Risk Mitigation and Infection Control: Key Terms

This week's topic has suggestions for how to keep track of all the information you are collecting. Whether you like paper-based or digital...

Our series continues with a step that helps you take action as you become a more empowered patient. While health insurance and other factors set...

We hear so often how "we all have a role to play in reducing healthcare associated infections." From washing our hands to advocating for policy...

This week we continue our series on our New Year's resolution: Becoming a more empowered patient! This step provides some guidelines to help make...

In the world of risk mitigation, there are a number of established concepts that encompass the many ways to avoid harm. These concepts also apply to...

At no other time in history has the patient had access to the amount of information about illness, had the legal and societal (and financial) rights...

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are computer algorithms that take data from graphs and uses relationships between the data points to make predictions or...

The concept of safety is nothing new: Anything that protects us from injury or death has surely been on the mind of humankind since we were...

To address the persistent issue of healthcare associated infections, hospital professionals deploy two primary approaches: reactive and proactive...

There are so many psychological, sociological, and intellectual barriers to change - anyone who has tried to break a bad habit or motivate a group...

Access to clean water, soap, and basic cleaning products may seem like a given in our nation, leading many of us to overlook the impact poverty can...

With a Presidential Inauguration taking place in the midst of a global pandemic, we have the opportunity to look at how past president's have dealt...

Health.Care | An Educational Blog

The Empowered Patient, Step 4: Record Keeping

The Empowered Patient, Step 3: Action

Patients, Staff, Administrators: What Each of Us Can Do to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs)

The Empowered Patient, Step 2: Research

Risk Mitigation and Infection Control: Key Terms

The Empowered Patient, Step 4: Record Keeping

The Empowered Patient, Step 3: Action

Patients, Staff, Administrators: What Each of Us Can Do to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs)

The Empowered Patient, Step 2: Research

Risk Mitigation and Infection Control: Key Terms

The Empowered Patient, Step 1: Prepare To Be Powerful

How are Graph Neural Networks Being Used in the Fight Against Healthcare Acquired Infections?

The Invention of Safety

Healthcare-Associated Infections: Reactive vs. Proactive Solutions

Barriers to Adopting Preventive Measures: Why is it So Hard?

Hygiene Poverty and Its Impact on Infection Control and Prevention

Presidential Pathogens: How George Washington Stopped an Epidemic