A new patient safety and medical education initiative, standardizing and improving how patient care is “handed off” during hospital shift changes, can reduce medical errors by as much as 40 percent, report physicians at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Boston.

Intelligent InSites, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise real-time location systems (RTLS) software helping hospitals improve operation performance and patient satisfaction while supporting multiple RFID and RTLS technologies, has annouced that its InSites Connect RTLS mobility solution is now available in Apple’s App Store.

CareFusion and Cerner recently announced the live limited commercial release of a new infusion pump connectivity solution at Oklahoma Heart Hospital, one of the nation’s first all-digital hospitals exclusively focused on heart care.

iSirona®, a provider of simplified solutions for medical device integration, announced on April 12 that Franciscan Alliance, one of only 32 Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) in the country, has chosen to implement iSirona’s device connectivity software.

Capsule Tech, Inc., the leading provider of medical device connectivity, recently announced “Connected Consultants”, a new video series created to educate clinicians and IT staff within hospitals and healthcare organizations on the important role that medical device integration plays in improving healthcare IT.

A Henry Ford Hospital surgeon checks in on a patient the day after removing a tumor from his kidney, examining the surgical scar and seeing on the patient’s face that he’s still in a bit of pain. But this isn’t your typical post-surgical hospital rounding.

3M’s Infection Prevention Division and Sage Products are working together to offer surgical staff and patients a new preoperative prepping kit to help address surgical site infection (SSI) risk within three main reservoirs of bacteria in the body:  the nares, the oral cavity and the skin.

RF Technologies, a leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) healthcare safety and security solutions, recently announced the release of renewed alarm units for their Sensatec Fall Management Solution, bringing added features to staff in senior living communities, hospitals, and rehabilitation facilities.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed Common Formats – Hospital Version 1.2, which features new content to incorporate event-specific formats.