In 2012 when Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a 14-hospital system in Illinois and Wisconsin, started using computerized provider order entry (CPOE), physicians were overwhelmed by the number of alerts they got from the ordering system. Though the alerts were meant to prevent errors, the barrage simply wore the physicians down, often to the point of ignoring some warnings altogether.

More than a dozen major medical societies and healthcare organizations, including patient and consumer advocates and government partners, have joined forces to address diagnostic errors in medicine through the newly formed Coalition to Improve Diagnosis.

In this age of Yelp®, TripAdvisor®, and Amazon®, product reviews greatly influence which items consumers purchase. Anyone who buys regularly online understands over time the validity of various product reviews and learns how to apply a personal algorithm to cut through to meaningful product information while ignoring prefabricated, biased content.

Many states and communities are forming health information exchanges (HIE) to promote greater care coordination and collaboration across healthcare settings. Most of these repositories capture traditional clinical data, pulling from hospital and physician practice records, but behavioral health data is conspicuously absent.

When the Buick plant in Flint, Michigan, demonstrated in 1969 that automatic identification could be done with laser-based barcode readers even on a moving assembly line, many industries took notice. Unfortunately, healthcare wasn’t one of them.

Fluoroscopy is a powerful tool that has been used over the past century in many medical disciplines. If asked, ”What is an X-ray?” many patients would say it is like a photograph—a picture of a body taken at a moment in time. Following this analogy, if a conventional X-ray is similar to a photograph, fluoroscopy is like a video.

The Liberty QualityCare Client Satisfaction Survey is designed to provide an annual measurement of outcomes for a national, private, physician-owned corporation established in 1986. Liberty Healthcare Corporation provides healthcare management and staffing for acute care behavioral health, mental health, dual diagnosis with intellectual/developmental disabilities, correctional mental health, and primary care settings.

In April 2014, students from Wright State University (WSU)’s Boonshoft School of Medicine and College of Nursing and Health teamed up with pharmacy students from Cedarville University—all based in Ohio—to participate in an extracurricular activity they hoped would herald a new approach to their combined curriculums.

Concern for the safety of health information technology (HIT) is long-standing, and recent reports have catapulted HIT safety to prominence.

Have you noticed anything different about Dr. Blott recently? It used to be that when he came to make rounds, he was friendly and willing to help out, but now he seems aloof and barely makes eye contact. When I call him about a patient, he acts like I am bothering him, and he’s very abrupt and insensitive.