Personalized feedback leads to cleaner hands
A major three-year trial led by researchers at UCL, in partnership with the Health Protection Agency, has shown that giving one-to-one feedback to healthcare workers makes them twice as likely to clean their hands or use soap.
Report Cites Health Care Integration as a National Priority for Improving Patient Safety
The Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation today released a report on care integration that highlights the issue as a national priority for improving patient safety and the efficiency of the US health care system. Order from Chaos: Accelerating Care Integration is the result of a Leape Institute Roundtable that brought together leading experts in the fields of patient safety and health system improvement.
Eyeglasses—Low-Hanging Fruit?
At the AAMI/FDA Summit on Interoperability, a presenter mentioned a circumstance where a nurse was not able to read a smart pump display because she wasn’t wearing her glasses. I have heard similar comments in the past—always as a sidebar to a main point being made about electronic health records, medical devices, or some other information printed or displayed in a clinical environment—which leads me to wonder how often clinicians put patients at risk because their vision is faulty and uncorrected.
Electronic Physician Documentation
As hospitals throughout the country sprint towards Meaningful Use, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic medication reconciliation, ICD-9-generated diagnosis tables, nursing documentation, and bed side barcoding seem to be riding a tsunami incentivized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
Medical Protection Technologies’ Hip Protectors Help Prevent Fractures
Aditazz Patient Mobility Platform to Improve Healthcare Outcomes
Aditazz announced a strategic partnership with inventor Roger Leib to jointly develop and market the Patient Mobility Platform, a suite of mobility products conceived and designed by Leib, founder of Develop, LLC.
Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium to Track, Monitor Blood Products
The Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium announced that S3Edge Inc., the software partner for the consortium has been selected to exclusively commercialize the RFID and barcode based Blood Product Tracking suite of applications designed and built under a private, academic, and public initiative funded by the NIH.
NovaSom Announces Sleep Apnea Testing Program for Anesthesiologists
Donald Berwick Receives Institute of Medicine’s 2012 Lienhard Award
The Institute of Medicine recently presented the 2012 Gustav O. Lienhard Award to Donald M. Berwick, a physician whose work has catalyzed a national movement to improve health care quality and safety.