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McKesson Acquires peerVue, A Leader in Radiology Workflow Solutions

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Atlanta and Sarasota, Florida—McKesson announced that it has acquired peerVue Inc., an innovative provider of solutions that simplify diagnostic medical imaging workflow, expedite communications for improved quality and efficiency, and support customer efforts to improve patient safety.

Patient Safety

California Hospital Patient Safety Organization Selects ECRI Institute PSO for Patient Safety Services

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania—ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization announces an agreement to provide patient safety services to the California Hospital Patient Safety Organization (CHPSO). ECRI Institute PSO will support CHPSO with a patient safety data collection and reporting system and by analyzing adverse events and other information from participating hospitals and health systems.

Quality Improvement

ANA Awards 6 Hospitals for Outstanding Nursing Quality

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Silver Spring, Maryland—Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital decreased its rates of patient falls by 33 percent and pressure ulcers acquired by patients during a hospital stay by 60 percent over three years.

Leadership

HRET Selects Maureen Bisognano as 2012 TRUST Award Recipient

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Chicago—The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an affiliate of the American Hospital Association (AHA), selected Maureen Bisognano, president and chief executive officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), as the recipient of the 2012 TRUST Award.

Leadership

2012 AHA Health Care System Transformation Fellowship

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Chicago—Sixteen senior executives have been selected to participate in the second class of the American Hospital Association (AHA) Health Care System Transformation Fellowship. The Fellowship is an intensive six-month program that provides participants with a road map of how to design and plan for new care delivery and payment models, such as medical homes, bundled payments and clinical integration programs.

Accreditation & Regulation

AORN Releases Implementation Guide for Prevention of RSIs

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Denver—The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has published an Implementation Guide for the Recommended practices for prevention of retained surgical items (RSIs).

Quality Improvement

National Quality Forum Endorses Two American College of Surgeons NSQIP Measures

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Chicago—Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The two measures, surgical site infection (SSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI), were developed by ACS in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as possible national outcomes measures that could be adopted by the governmental body as early as 2015.

Accreditation & Regulation

Cardinal Health Awarded AORN Seal of Recognition for Education Quality

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Denver, Colorado—The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has awarded the AORN Seal of Recognition™ to education materials developed by Cardinal Health.

Leadership

U.S. Among Leaders in Healthcare IT Use and Adoption, Accenture Eight-Country Study Reports

February 15, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Reston, Virginia—The United States is a leader in healthcare information technology (IT) use and adoption by physicians, according to a new eight-country study from Accenture.

Team Training

AHRQ Announces Free TeamSTEPPS Training Opportunities

February 10, 2012 ‐ Susan Carr

AHRQ announces free training opportunities for TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety), a set of evidence-based, practical tools that helps hospitals and other health care providers strengthen teamwork among caregivers with the goal of improving patient safety. AHRQ and the Department of Defense designed the TeamSTEPPS program specifically for health care providers for use in a variety of care settings.