ECRI Institute PSO’s Reviews Medication Events, Makes Recommendations
Medication mishaps are the most common errors in healthcare. Indeed, medication errors represent the most frequently reported events submitted to ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO)—comprising about 30% of all events.
ASHRM Marks Healthcare Risk Management Week: June 18-22
Sage Products Honored by WOCN for Support of Research Mission
Sage Products Inc. was honored by the Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses (WOCN) Society at the opening of the WOCN’s 44th annual conference June 10 in Charlotte, N.C., for its longtime support of the organization’s research mission. Sage Vice President of Marketing Terry Boersma accepted the award on behalf of the company.
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Health 2.0 and ONC Announce Winner of $25,000 Challenge for Adverse Event Reporting
Health 2.0 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have announced the winner of the Investing in Innovation initiative’s (i2) Reporting Device Adverse Events Challenge.
Healthcare CEOs Develop Checklist to Save Lives and Money
Collaborating under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), CEOs and senior executives from eleven leading hospitals and health systems have developed a comprehensive checklist to promote high-value health care—care that delivers better results at reduced cost.
Released today, the CEO Checklist for High-Value Health Care is a Discussion Paper from the Institute of Medicine in which the authors present a Checklist of ten strategies that have proven effective in reducing waste and improving outcomes. The Checklist is available online at www.iom.edu/CEOChecklist.
Editor’s Notebook: Culture’s Reciprocal Rewards
Editor’s Notebook
Culture’s Reciprocal Rewards
Spring is a busy season for conferences. In May, I attended a few and missed a few because there weren’t enough hours and days in the month. At the ones I did attend, the effect of an institution’s culture on patient safety was a common theme.
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Corporate Compliance: OIG Report Critical of CMS Handling of Serious Adverse Events
Corporate Compliance
OIG Report Critical of CMS Handling of Serious Adverse Events
In late 2011, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report that examined CMS’s response to serious adverse events in hospitals. The report, Adverse Events in Hospitals: Medicare’s Responses to Alleged Serious Events (Levinson, 2011), concludes that “Medicare’s system of hospital oversight missed opportunities to address patient safety in its response to alleged serious adverse events.”
Health IT & Quality: Print Me a Pill
Health IT & Quality
Print Me a Pill
During the first Star Trek series released in the mid 1960s, the creators introduced viewers to several magical devices—the Communicator, the Padd, the Replicator, and the Transporter. Although building the latter device requires the repeal of several laws of physics, the other three commonly exist today for the public to use. Smart phones are the Communicator of today allowing us to speak, text, or email to anyone around the world who might have a similar device.
