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ECRI Institute PSO Deep Dive™ Analyzes Medication Events

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ECRI Institute PSO Deep Dive™ Analyzes Medication Events

By Charlotte Huber, RN, MSN; Barbara Rebold, RN, MS; Cynthia Wallace; and Karen P. Zimmer, MD, MPH

With this issue, Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH)
reaches its fifth anniversary, which prompts me to take a moment and
think about how much the world has changed and stayed the same in the
past five years. When we published the first issue, in July 2004, the
patient safety community was discussing how much progress—if any—had
been made since the IOM published To Err Is Human five years earlier, and now we are assessing progress made over the past 10 years.

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Accreditation & Regulation

Joint Commission Names Top Performing U.S. Hospitals

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“Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012,” includes 620 hospitals that are leading the way nationally in using evidence-based care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes. The hospitals identified as attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability performance in 2011 represent approximately 18 percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting core measure performance data.

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Patient Safety

Call for Letters of Intent to Conduct Research in Patient Safety

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The National Patient Safety Foundation’s Research Grants Program seeks to stimulate new, innovative projects directed toward enhancing patient safety in the United States. The program’s objective is to promote studies leading to the prevention of human errors, system errors, patient injuries and the consequences of such adverse events in the health care setting.

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Patient Safety

NorthShore University HealthSystem and Mayo Clinic to Collaborate

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NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Mayo Clinic have announced NorthShore as a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. This collaboration, the only one of its kind in the Chicago region, will provide NorthShore patients with access to medical resources and experts from both systems working together on their behalf. The agreement formalizes a long-standing relationship between the two institutions.

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Quality Improvement

McKesson to Acquire MedVentive, Support “Better Health 2020”

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McKesson will enter into a definitive agreement to acquire MedVentive, a leading provider of population and risk management tools that drive transparency in healthcare cost and quality. MedVentive’s solutions will augment McKesson’s capabilities and experience to support providers as they become clinically integrated, engage physicians and patients to reduce costs, and transition to risk-bearing models such as accountable care.

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