First Databank Releases Enhanced Drug Knowledge to Support Interoperable Medication Management
First Databank (FDB), the leading provider of clinical drug knowledge that helps improve medication-related decisions and patient outcomes, announces the release of a broad range of cross references within the FDB Interoperability Module.
EPMG Assists Families Experiencing Unexpected Death or Outcomes
Emergency Physicians Medical Group’s (EPMG) Next Step Program has been nationally recognized as an innovation designed to reach out to patients and their family members in a very unique way.
C. Diff Infections Becoming More Common, Mayo Clinic Finds
The Johns Hopkins Hospital Wins ECRI Institute’s 2012 Health Devices Achievement Award
ECRI Institute®, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, is pleased to announce The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, as the winner of its 7th Annual Health Devices Achievement Award.
NPSF Announces 15th Annual Patient Safety Congress
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).