AHA Launches Symposium for Healthcare Quality Leaders to Increase Patient Safety Improvements
To further cement its commitment to improve quality and patient safety in America’s hospitals, the American Hospital Association is launching a new forum – the Symposium for Leaders in Healthcare Quality (SLHQ). SLHQ provides healthcare improvement professionals a setting to collaborate and share best practices to improve quality and patient safety.
OpenNotes Program Expands with Toolkit; Psych Notes, Too
OpenNotes is a program that allows patients to read their clinicians’ notes as they appear in the medical record. The program started less than five years ago and currently includes 2 million patients in health systems across the country, including the Department of Veterans Affairs.
‘Management by Walking Around’ Programs in Hospitals May Do More Harm Than Good
Management-By-Walking-Around, a widely adopted technique in hospitals in which senior managers visit the frontlines of their organizations to solicit improvement ideas and resolve issues, has the potential to do more harm than good, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Business School (HBS).
ECRI Institute PSO Convenes First Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative on Health IT Safety
ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO), a leader in analyzing safety data associated with electronic health records, has launched the first multi-stakeholder partnership to generate new knowledge on safe health IT practices.
Patient Portal Certification Helps Health Systems Meet Meaningful Use Requirements
Harris Corporation’s FusionFX Patient Portal has been certified to enable health system customers to meet important Meaningful Use requirements and qualify for related government funding.
Partnership Increases Hand Hygiene Compliance
A new partnership between TeleTracking Technologies; Hill-Rom Company; and GOJO, makers of Purell hand sanitizer, will allow hospitals to use TeleTracking’s Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) to track, measure, and report hand hygiene compliance.
Online Platform Allows Physicians to Collaborate on Complex Cases
Best Doctors, Inc., a global health company that brings together the best minds in medicine to help people get the right diagnosis and treatment plan, has announced the successful deployment of its acclaimed Medting™ solution, a cutting-edge, cloud-based software that allows clinicians to easily and securely collaborate while enabling access to shared diagnostic image and video files.
Call to Action on Patient and Family Engagement in Healthcare from NPSF’s Lucian Leape Institute
Enabling patients and families to be respected partners in health care—from the exam room to the policy arena—is essential if the U.S. health care system is to continue to make progress in patient safety. That is the central message of a report released recently by the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute.
Online Competition Aims to Improve Patient Engagement and Education, Reduce Isolation
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital recently brought together software designers and developers from around the city and country for InnovateNYP, New York’s first hospital-focused hackathon. Seventeen teams worked around the clock to develop an innovation that would enhance and improve myNYP, the hospital’s online patient portal, which allows patients to track their health records, coordinate doctors’ appointments, and more.
First Databank Releases FDB AlertSpace Alert Management Solution
First Databank (FDB), the leading provider of clinical drug knowledge that improves medication-related decisions and patient outcomes, has announced that FDB AlertSpace, a web-based solution for drug knowledge alert management in CPOE systems, will be made available to Siemens Soarian Clinicals customers and Siemens Pharmacy in-house computing option (ICO) users.