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Technology & Quality – Path Innovation: Transcending Automation

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

After a brief reprieve during the 1990s, healthcare again faces the vexing problem of rising healthcare costs with accompanying increases in premiums and out-of-pocket costs for consumers.

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Quality Platform – Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium: Baldrige as a Quality Platform

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Baptist Hospital, Inc. (BHI), in Pensacola, Florida, first entered the formal world of continuous quality improvement with the adoption of continuous quality improvement/total quality management (CQI/TQM) techniques in 1991.

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Performance Excellence: Proceedings from the Quality Colloquium Using the Baldrige Criteria to Achieve Performance Excellence

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence have proven in healthcare as well as other industries to be an effective roadmap through complex and challenging conditions.

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Next Steps – Patient Safety: It’s Not Just About the Technology…

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Patient safety is at the top of the agenda for hospital executives. Every hospital’s growth strategy presumes compliance with accepted medical practices and access to thorough and current patient information at every point where care is administered.

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Medication Safety – Compliance Made Easy: Understanding USP 797

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

During the 1960s, the practice of pharmacy began growing and evolving. In response to an increasing number of patient injuries due to medication delivery and sterile compounding, the industry began calling attention to safety.

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View From the Hill: The Administration Takes a Step Forward on E-Prescribing

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Many industry observers believe that electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is one of the key steps for reaching our president’s 2004 goal of “most Americans having an electronic health record within the next decade.”

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Ethics Toolbox: Blending Ethics and Empowerment with Consumer-Driven Healthcare

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

For the past three decades, cost containment, control, efficiency, and reduction efforts have remained at the forefront of healthcare policy, overshadowing innovation, quality, and safety concerns.

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Editor’s Notebook: Proust and Patient Safety

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Can you imagine the chairs of a patient safety conference in the U.S. including a quote from Marcel Proust in the introduction to the published proceedings? Probably not,…

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Consumers as Partners – Standards, Audits, and Saying I’m Sorry: An Engineer’s Family Proposes Solutions

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

I dreamed of being an engineer when I was growing up, but algebra and calculus were not my cup of tea, so I pursued a career in politics and public relations.

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Case Study: Improving Medication Safety with a Wireless, Mobile Barcode System in a Community Hospital

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Over the past few years, hospital organizations have increasingly looked to new technology solutions to improve patient safety. Barcode technology is an especially promising approach in the effort to reduce medical errors.

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