Northeast Georgia Physicians Group Chooses Phytel to Enhance Its Patient-Centered Medical Home Model
UC Irvine Medical Center Selects iSirona for Medical Device Integration
iSirona, a provider of simplified solutions for medical device integration, announced on May 8 that UC Irvine Medical Center will be implementing iSirona’s device connectivity solution throughout its campus.
HMS Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality
NPSF Awards Research Grants for Patient Safety Projects
I-PASS: Standardizing Patient “Handoffs” to Reduce Medical Errors
Psych Patients Need Patience in the ER, Average Wait 11 Hours
ANA and AONE Release Joint Principles of Collaboration
The Risk of Workarounds
In April, Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare published an article summarizing a recent webinar presented through ourCenter for Safety and Clinical Excellence. The article is titled “Smart Pump Workarounds – What’s the Legal Risk?”, and it focuses on personal accountability on the part of caregivers in safely operating Smart IV pumps.
Caregiver accountability has been a hot topic in recent months. As it relates to IV medication safety, it’s a critical issue and worth paying attention to. It’s been shown that clinicians often implement process workarounds, including not utilizing the drug library, overriding soft dose and concentration alerts, reprogramming infusions as rate in ml/hr following hard limits, and occasionally removing IV tubing from pumps and delivering medication boluses by gravity to avoid a high dose alert.
Another Way to Do Harm
In PSQH, we usually focus on preventing patient harm that results from errors—mediation overdoses, wrong-site surgery, MRI accidents, failure to rescue, etc.—that trace back to systemic problems in healthcare institutions. Those problems include poor communication, environments full of distraction and stress, inadequate training, power hierarchies, to name a few.
Enlivening Biophilia: Sky Factory Promotes Healing for Cancer Patients
The Sky Factory, a fine art and technology company, will exhibit at ESTRO 31 in Barcelona, May 9 – 13.