ECRI Institute Announces 2013 Health Devices Achievement Award – Call for Entries
ECRI Institute is now accepting submissions to its 8th annual Health Devices Achievement Award program. ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has recognized healthcare organizations nationwide for the past seven years with its prestigious award for achieving excellence in technology management and patient safety.
Class III Obese Patients Experience Adverse Events More Frequently
Global Survey Sheds Light on Patient Safety Challenges in Nursing
When it comes to addressing patient safety issues within a hospital, nurses want to make a difference and they assign themselves great responsibility for safe outcomes. However, the question remains whether hospitals are doing everything they can in terms of keeping patients safe. According to a recent survey of nurses in the United States, UK and China by GE Healthcare and the American Nurses Association (ANA), many nurses have witnessed errors and few call their own hospitals safe.
Hospitals Should Reconsider Insulin Pen Use, Says ISMP
As a result of persistent, ongoing safety issues, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is calling for hospitals to closely reexamine their policies regarding insulin pen devices and consider transitioning away from insulin pens for routine inpatient use.
Strategic Quality Improvement Imperative: Population Health Management
Despite spending more on healthcare than any nation, the U.S. health system ranks last or next to last on high performance dimensions when compared to health systems of six other developed nations — Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom (Davis et al., 2010).
IOM Committee Releases Observations on Modifications to Medicare Payments
Providing higher Medicare payment rates to hospitals and clinicians in regions of the country characterized by good health outcomes and relatively lower spending and decreasing payment rates in regions with overall lesser quality and higher spending would not give providers the incentive to deliver care more efficiently, according to an Institute of Medicine committee studying the issue.
Texas Hospital Adopts Tracking Software to Prevent Infections and Improve Care
HIMSS Buzz: Data Liquidity
One of the “buzziest” announcements last week at HIMSS, the annual health IT conference and exhibition, was the launch of the CommonWell Alliance. CommonWell is a non-profit organization created by five major vendors of electronic medical records (EMRs) to develop, promote, and certify a “national infrastructure with common platforms and policies for health data liquidity.”
Call for Nominations for 2013 Lienhard Award
The Gustav O. Lienhard Award, established in 1986, is presented annually by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in honor of Gustav O. Lienhard, chairman of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Board of Trustees from 1971 to 1986.