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NewsHopkins, Lockheed partner to build safer ICUs
Safety issues in healthcare often are compared unfavorably to the solutions that the airline industry has adopted to minimize the chance of a plane crash. Now, a unit of Johns Hopkins University is Read more...
Kaiser, Mayo press for standard product identifiers to improve patient safety
The Healthcare Transformation Group (HTG), a collaborative comprised of five big healthcare organizations--Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, and the Read more...
Hospitals to reap rewards from in-house radiology
Despite being considered a driving force of escalating healthcare costs, imaging can also be a major source of revenue for hospitals. Hospital executives looking to add value to patient care and the Read more...
Infant death prompts calls for action on health IT errors
The tragic death of a baby in a Chicago hospital has again drawn attention to the potential of automated systems to generate the kinds of errors they're designed to prevent. These mistakes are Read more...
New government patient safety program will need health IT
The government's new $1 billion patient safety initiative, authorized by the Affordable Care Act, has sizable implications for health IT. Half of the money in the Partnership for Patients program Read more...
CMS publishes hospital infection data over AHA objections
Despite opposition from hospitals, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the first data on hospital-acquired conditions and is expected to post the information on the Read more...
IT could compensate for higher-than-expected care fragmentation
Interoperable IT could be just the thing to help healthcare reduce the expensive duplication and potential adverse events associated with fragmented care, according to just-published research from Read more...
AHRQ survey: Practices continue to struggle with HIE
If the early results of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality survey are a reliable indicator, physician practices are continuing to struggle with health information exchange. In the Read more...
Health IT not always integrated into clinical workflows
Previous studies of the efficacy of health IT in improving quality of care and patient safety have shown decidedly mixed results, largely because IT isn't properly integrated into clinical and Read more...
Joint Commission looks to IT in drive to improve patient hand-offs
A test to help reduce high miscommunication rates on patient hand-offs will help the Joint Commission's Center for Transforming Healthcare develop an electronic application that all Joint Read more...
| Press ReleasesAvery Dennison Healthcare Provider Solutions and Trimble Collaborate to Deliver ThingMagic Powered RFID Systems for HospitalsSolutions and Services to Improve Key Processes, Increase Patient Safety and Satisfaction, and Reduce CostsSUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced that Avery Read more >> Centra Health and TeleHealth Services Partner to Launch Enterprise Interactive Patient Education for Patient Satisfaction and SaCentra Health will utilize TeleHealth's enterprise interactive patient education solution to increase patient satisfaction and safety scores across the system.Lynchburg, Va. and Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 2 Read more >> Middlesex Hospital Selects Prime-A-Pump to Build and Maintain Evidence-Based Drug LibrariesLOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Zynx Health Device Network, a developer of clinical decision support for medical devices, today announced that Middlesex Hospital has selected Prime-A-Pump – an Read more >> New UHC Scorecard Provides Unique Insights Into Integrated Performance in 6 Key AreasGives AMCs a view of interrelationships between quality, patient safety, and supply chain costsCHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- UHC today introduced its new Quality and Spend Scorecard, which Read more >> Academic Medical Center Selects Prime-A-Pump to Build and Maintain Evidence-Based Drug LibrariesLOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Zynx Health Device Network, an entrepreneurial developer of clinical decision support for medical devices, today announced that Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Read more >> |
