Five student groups were awarded prizes for innovations they developed to address safety issues in healthcare as part of the 2024 Health Hackathon hosted by New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine.
Category: Patient Safety & Outcomes
Children's prolonged hospital stays linked to 3 factors
Long hospital stays and severe infections in children are linked to a handful of factors, including hospitalization during the rainy season and malnutrition, according to research published March 20 in BMC Infectious Diseases.
World's 1st gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into Mass General patient
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital successfully completed the world’s first transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney, the Boston-based system said March 21.
Neuralink reveals 1st patient with brain chip implant
On March 20, Elon Musk’s Neuralink introduced 29-year-old Noland Arbaugh as the first patient to have received its brain-computer implant.
Joint Commission revises several hospital standards
The Joint Commission has revised several elements of performance for hospitals, including one that covers how organizations handle medical waste.
The Joint Commission's 2024 patient safety goals for hospitals
The Joint Commission released a simplified breakdown of eight patient safety goals for hospitals in 2024.
No sign of brain injuries in 'Havana syndrome' patients: NIH
Two new federal studies found no significant evidence of brain injury among more than 80 patients with ”Havana syndrome,” The Washington Post reported March 18.
'The Wild West': Physicians worry guardrails lacking amid remote monitoring boom
Some physicians are expressing concern that regulation around remote monitoring has not caught up with the boom of use in the last two years, KFF Health News reported March 18.
Inside HCA's safety work
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare has taken numerous steps to embed safety work into daily operations across its 186 hospitals, Karla Miller, PharmD, the system’s chief patient safety officer, wrote in a March 15 blog post.
Penn Medicine hospital's immediate jeopardy lasted 5 hours
In November, CMS placed a Penn Medicine hospital in immediate jeopardy for five hours after a possible preventable death. The corrections were published in late February.
