Patients Engaged as Consumers
Patient engagement is a hot topic. From next week’s HIMSS Conference and Exhibition to the current issue of Health Affairs, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, and most healthcare organizations, patient engagement is prominently on the agenda. In Forbes, quality and safety guru Michael Millenson reports that the patient engagement movement has entered a new, high-powered phase.
VA Medical Centers to Implement Intelligent InSites to Improve Health Care Efficiency
Intelligent InSites, Inc., the leading provider of real-time operational intelligence for healthcare in the government and commercial sectors, has been selected to provide the enterprise-wide software solution for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) $543 million Real Time Location System (RTLS) contract, as a subcontractor to the prime contractor, HP Enterprise Services.
ECRI Institute Releases C-Suite Watch List of Top 10 Hospital Technology Issues for 2013
New white paper addresses top issues impacting patient safety, capital expenditures, and care delivery
Healthcare reform, Accountable Care Organizations, readmissions, and reimbursement rates are just a few of the challenges facing today’s healthcare leaders. Balancing costs and savings potential for new technologies also weighs heavily on their shoulders. A new Watch List from ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches best approaches to improving patient care, provides a roadmap to 10 technology issues that healthcare leaders should have on their radar in 2013 and beyond.
High Reliability: Memorial Hermann Health System’s IT Network
By Mitch Work, MPA, FHIMSS, and Chuck Appleby
When your vision is to become a “high reliability” organization in healthcare like those in the nuclear power and commercial airline industries, you’ve set the bar at a height no health system has yet reached. Add a burgeoning uninsured population with diminishing reimbursement in one of the most competitive health marketplaces in the nation and, well, “Houston, we may have a problem.” Memorial Hermann Health System—a Houston-based integrated delivery system with 12 hospitals and more than 20,000 employees serving a 115-mile-diameter region centered on the metro area—has not only set such a bar, its exemplary record in patient safety and clinical quality makes it a good bet to reach it.
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New Issue Features Interoperability, HENs, and Nurse Leadership
In PSQH, we attempt to represent the diversity of disciplines, tools, and knowledge that contribute to improving safety and quality, and the new issue is a good example of that approach.
Cox Medical Center Branson Uses T-System’s Care Continuity to Reduce Readmissions
Cox Medical Center Branson completed activation of T-System’s PerformNext Care Continuity web-based solution in its hospital and provider clinics to facilitate patient transitions and improve communication and access to clinical data. The facility has set a goal to reduce avoidable readmissions by 20 percent with the primary intention to improve their patients’ safety, satisfaction, experience and outcomes.
B. Braun Smart Infusion Pump Technology Advances Patient Safety
In an effort to provide the best patient care possible, Western Maryland Health System (WMHS) recently announced its successful integration of B. Braun Medical Inc.’s (B.Braun) innovative Outlook 400ES Safety Infusion System.
Awarepoint Launches New Bed & Bay Sensor
Awarepoint Corporation, the largest real-time location system (RTLS) corporation dedicated exclusively to healthcare, announces the launch of its new Bed and Bay Sensor that enables precise tracking of mobile equipment and patient and caregiver interactions in locations with tight-bed spacing, such as the emergency department (ED) and pre- and post-anesthesia care.
MACRMI Launches Medical Liability Website for Massachusetts Patients and Providers
The Massachusetts Alliance for Communication and Resolution following Medical Injury (MACRMI), an organization formed in 2012 and dedicated to the prompt resolution of medical liability arising from injuries to patients, has announced the launch of its website for Massachusetts patients and providers at www.macrmi.org.