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    Health IT rEsources

    HIMSS12 — the 2012 edition of the biggest gathering of people interested in health information technology (HIT) — is less than a month away. Although often thought of as the bastion of HIT corporations, HIMSS has become an active proponent of social media and efforts to include patients and consumers in HIT. The annual HIMSS conference is one of the best resources for information and opportunities to “meetup” with leaders in social media and networking. In preparation for this year’s event (Feb. 20 to 24 in Las Vegas), I offer links to some HIMSS sessions and other resources for information about social media in healthcare:

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    3M Makes Call to Action to Reduce Surgical Site Infections

    A cross-functional team of infection prevention experts released “Educate, Empower, Engage: A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Call-to-Action for Reducing Surgical Site Infections,” outlining potential solutions for preventing surgical site infections (SSIs) at health care facilities. READ MORE...

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    A Cost-Effective Approach to Preventing Medication Errors: Nurses’ Clinical Reasoning

    In the 1990s, research into medication errors focused on systems and identified nurses as crucial to intercepting those errors before they reached patients. Now, a new study reveals the clinical reasoning practices and processes nurses use successfully to prevent medication errors. READ MORE...

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    High Reliability Healthcare: Applying CRM to High-Performing Teams, Part 8

    People make decisions, or choices, based on their knowledge of the current operating environment and their past education or experience. This past education or experience is stored in the human brain in the form of rules. The human brain perceives a situation, scans for a rule from its long-term memory, recalls and then acts to apply the rule.

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