Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, is the first U.S. hospital to implement the ALTA Platform (R), which automates lateral patient transfers to reduce injury risk for ...

Made by CEGA Innovations LLC (Sioux Falls, SD), the MuV patient transfer system is lightweight and ergonomically designed to not only reduce patient stress but also lessen the burden for hospital ...

The authors reviewed physician-to-physician conversations during emergency transfer of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and found that higher-quality physician coordination was ...

With the aid of sophisticated machine learning, researchers at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine demonstrated that a tool they developed can rapidly predict mortality for ...

Recently, a hospital in Hebei Province has taken a significant step forward in medical services by introducing advanced smart transfer beds to improve patient transportation efficiency and comfort.

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Enhancing Value By Evaluating Health Care Services.” The series discusses ways to extend the use of tools for clinical and economic ...