Zack Budryk
The Mary Sue
Alexandria, VA, United States
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How the Casey Affleck-Free Gone, Baby, Gone Adaptation Can Age Better in the #MeToo Era
A new, TV adaptation of Gone, Baby, Gone is in the works, and it has the chance to age better than the one starring Casey Affleck. → Read More
Who Run The World? 8 Great Female Characters You May Have Missed in 2017
There was such an embarrassment of riches that, as in 2015, some of the best female characters of the year slipped comparatively under the radar. Here are a few → Read More
The Big Sleep to The Big Short: The Rise of Post-Financial Crisis Crime Fiction
Capitalism and American crime fiction have always been intertwined because greed and crime have always been intertwined. → Read More
3 ways precision medicine can improve population health
A lot is riding on the White House’s precision medicine initiative, but if it achieves its potential, it could considerably improve population health, argues a JAMA blog post. → Read More
A third of hospitals don't have mandatory translators
A new Health Affairs study finds that 1 in 3 hospitals in the U.S. lack the translators required by federal law, a deficiency that can have serious adverse effects on patient safety. → Read More
Electronic hand-hygiene monitoring cuts MRSA rates by nearly half
Electronic monitoring of healthcare workers’ hand-washing habits cuts Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rates by 42 percent, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. → Read More
ER violence: Advocates call for New Jersey to take steps to protect hospital staff
Amid rising concerns about violence in hospitals, one of the major stumbling blocks to combat it is a sense of resignation and acceptance among employees that these types of incidents are just part of the job. In New Jersey, where hospitals’ perceived failure to protect their employees has recently been in the national spotlight, advocates have embarked on a statewide effort to increase… → Read More
Patient safety: A call for more meaningful measures
Increased financial pressure provides hospitals with more incentives to improve patient safety, but policymakers must establish more meaningful measures to create lasting change, write two leading patient safety experts. → Read More
Henry Ford program slashes patient suicide rates by 80%
A program at Henry Ford Health System's Behavioral Health Services Department drastically reduced suicide rates by applying a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation care redesign initiative to target depression, according to a case study published on the NEJM Catalyst blog. → Read More
Zika fears escalate: Virus is scarier than previously thought, CDC says
The Zika virus is far more damaging and scarier than previously thought. → Read More
4 ways to push healthcare into a new era
To grow and thrive, healthcare must enter a "third era" combining the strongest features of previous healthcare landscapes, according to former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D. → Read More
VA commission divided on privatization proposal
Nearly two years after the beginning of a scandal that rocked the Department of Veterans Affairs, a panel is considering a proposal that would turn veterans' care over to the private sector. Meanwhile, the department continues to employ people accused of serious misconduct and even crimes. → Read More
Scandal pushes officials to redesign the VA healthcare delivery system
Problems within the Department of Veterans Affairs keep coming even amid efforts to reform the system, with allegations this week that Texas VA facilities engaged in similar record falsification to that which kicked off the scandal nearly two years ago. → Read More
Value-based care models: Look to strategies that already work
The transition to a value-based care model is easier said than done. To actually make such a model work, leaders should look to practical strategies that have been successful for other organizations, according to a blog post for NEJM Catalyst. → Read More
Women leaders could boost hospital profits
The upper echelons of most industries are often thought of as a man's world, and healthcare is no exception. But new research from the Peterson Institute for International Economics and EY indicates women taking the reins could boost a hospital's bottom line. → Read More
Short-staffing of nurses hikes patient mortality by 20 percent
Nurse advocates have long argued that improved staffing ratios boost patient safety, and a new study published in the British Medical Journal backs that up, finding that patients are at much higher risk of death when their nurse is responsible for more than six patients at once. → Read More
Superbug-linked scopes: Feds failed to act on earlier outbreak
A recent report found blame to go around for a series of bacterial infection outbreaks linked to contaminated medical scopes, with regulators, hospitals and manufacturers all dropping the ball. → Read More
Nurses, hospital groups clash on Massachusetts bill to improve response to violence
Amid nationwide concerns about hospital violence, Massachusetts healthcare workers have often gotten the worst of it, such as a murder-suicide involving a cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital last year. → Read More
Nurse leaders slow to adopt evidence-based practices
Efforts to improve patient outcomes and cut costs remain an uphill struggle for many hospitals, and much of the blame may lie with failure to use evidence-based practices, according to research published in Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. → Read More
Population health management: Survey finds too many hospitals drag their feet
The healthcare industry at large agrees that improved population health management is vital to the future of healthcare, but a new survey from Numerof & Associates shows hospitals have a lot more to accomplish in this area. → Read More