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In our 5-Question series, we highlight the staff and faculty behind the compelling work at Ariadne Labs.  It has been a banner year for hospital expansion and mergers. “Health system megamergers continue to push deal activity to near-historic levels,” says Modern Healthcare. Moreover, “the amount of revenue tied up in such deals was nearly four… Continue reading 5 Questions with Susan Haas: Mergers Effect on Patient Safety

Ariadne Labs and Boston College School of Nursing will launch a new project to help nurses use data to understand how their practices influence childbirth outcomes. The new work is made possible by a grant from the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation’s Hillman Innovations in Care program, launched in 2014 to support bold, evidence-based interventions… Continue reading New project will help nurses use data to improve childbirth safety

Many find the pervasiveness of mobile phones both distracting and annoying, yet that very ubiquity may prove to be a boon for those recovering from surgery.  A paper published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association Surgery  demonstrates how a special smartphone application can be used to record the movements and activity of… Continue reading Study finds smartphone potential in measuring post-surgical recovery   

Ariadne Labs Executive Director Dr. Asaf Bitton has been selected as the 2019 Allan Sandler Visiting Scholar in General Internal Medicine by Massachusetts General Hospital. The honor was established 19 years ago to commemorate Dr. Sandler, who practiced internal medicine at the MGH for more than 40 years. As the Sandler Scholar from Oct. 23… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Executive Director Asaf Bitton honored as Sandler Scholar

Today Ariadne Labs launches Expecting More, a national campaign that aims to raise our collective expectations of the care and support people deserve while starting or growing their families. The campaign’s website Expecting More provides a platform for resources and commentary on the realities people face during the particularly vulnerable period when starting and growing… Continue reading Ariadne Labs launches Expecting More campaign to encourage support for families

The retired engineer could barely comprehend what the doctors were saying. They were telling him that his wife of 30 years had unexpectedly died while she was intubated and being prepped for a tracheostomy. Before the procedure even began, she had started gasping for breath and her heart failed. The doctors were trying to figure… Continue reading Grieving husband turns loss into action through Ariadne CARe project

Improving primary health care is key for boosting a country’s overall development as well as achieving universal health coverage. In a new paper, a team of country-level leaders and primary health care experts describe new groundbreaking tools that can help low- and middle-income countries evaluate their primary health care systems, pinpoint problems, and then do… Continue reading Novel data tools help countries evaluate and improve primary health care

Fifteen U.S. health systems are collaborating with Ariadne Labs to initiate more, better, and earlier conversations with seriously ill patients as part of an innovative collaborative that is reaching diverse populations from coast to coast. The Serious Illness Implementation Collaborative – which offers trainings offered in partnership with Ariadne Labs, the Center to Advance Palliative… Continue reading Ariadne partners with health systems to initiate serious illness conversation programs

Critical care physician and Ariadne Labs faculty member Daniela Lamas has been selected among 15 accomplished professionals as 2020 National Fellows by New America, a think and action tank that connects research, technology, and solutions. The fellows program supports projects such as books, films and podcasts on topics ranging from mass incarceration, Chinese surveillance, refugees,… Continue reading Ariadne physician to probe loneliness and critical care as a New America Fellow

The most vexing issue with setting up a serious illness conversation program is not convincing hospital administrations and physicians of the value of these conversations. Rather, stumbling blocks more often involve the logistics of implementing a system that would regularly identify and schedule meetings with those who would most benefit from an in-depth discussion about… Continue reading Paper explores ways to identify patients who would benefit from a serious illness conversation