PULSE: Ilene Corina Receives MITSS HOPE Award at 9th Annual Dinner
PULSE: Ilene Corina Receives MITSS HOPE Award at 9th Annual Dinner
More than 400 healthcare, business, and community leaders, as well as patients and family members, gathered to celebrate the MITSS 9th Annual Dinner and Fundraiser November 4th in Boston, Mass.
PULSE: Respectful Management of Serious Clinical Adverse Events
PULSE: Respectful Management of Serious Clinical Adverse Events
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has released a new white paper in the IHI Innovation Series titled Respectful Management of Serious Clinical Adverse Events.
PULSE: Common Format for Adverse Event Reporting on Health Information Technology
PULSE: Common Format for Adverse Event Reporting on Health Information Technology
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new Common Format designed to help healthcare providers collect information about adverse events related to HIT.
PULSE: Cleveland Clinic Team Develops New Quality Index for Hospitals
PULSE: Cleveland Clinic Team Develops New Quality Index for Hospitals
In a major paper published in the journal Anesthesiology, a Cleveland Clinic-led research team announced the development of a new publicly available tool to help patients, regulators, and hospitals compare patient outcomes and quality.
VAP: It’s the Little Things that Count
VAP: It’s the Little Things that Count
NY hospitals share lessons for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia through a statewide collaborative.
Making sure that the head of a patient bed is elevated 30% is just one of the important elements for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in critical care units.
The Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool
The Leapfrog CPOE Evaluation Tool: One Academic Medical Center’s Experience
A large proportion of medication errors occur at the prescribing phase. Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) offers a possible means by which to avoid these potentially harmful mistakes through implementation of electronic ordering and clinical decision support software (Kuperman, et al., 2007).
Safety and Savings in Las Vegas: Nurses Have Decision Support at UMC
Safety and Savings in Las Vegas: Nurses Have Decision Support at UMC
As one of the country’s fastest-growing cities in the early 21st century, Las Vegas, Nevada, has had to shoulder all the demographic challenges that distinction entails. Through it all, University Medical Center (UMC) has steadfastly maintained its role as the safety net for the sickest and neediest patients in this metro area of nearly two million people.
Integrated Quality Measures Improve Patient Safety & Care
Integrated Quality Measures Improve Patient Safety & Care
In 2008, the Piedmont Clinic welcomed a new CEO who has led the clinic leadership in its development and adoption of a clinical integration model that blends clinical and financial integration. As part of this process much discussion revolved around the best way to track and use data to create integration.
Addressing Institutional Conflict of Interest to Promote Patient Safety
Addressing Institutional Conflict of Interest to Promote Patient Safety
Studies show that 67% of academic departments have financial relationships with industry (Campbell, 2007b). The Institute of Medicine has warned that academic institutions lack independent review, with resulting tolerance of conflicts due to financial gains, which may pose serious barriers to addressing the issue (IOM, 2009).
Information Exchange
Information Exchange
Riding the Cloud to Improve Patient Safety
After nearly 30 years as a practicing physician, I don’t have a day go by in my practice where a patient would not benefit from more timely availability of records from other institutions. Now, however, thanks to cloud computing, the delays and inappropriate repetitive testing attributable to unavailable records may finally be coming to an end. The limitation is no longer the technology itself but simply the speed of adoption.