Quality Improvement

Health & IT Quality: Seeing Is Not Believing

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Health & IT Quality

Seeing Is Not Believing

By Barry P. Chaiken, MD, FHIMSS

Consider this scenario: An adventure traveler begins his trek to a remote village in the Andes. Upon arriving at the airport, he rents a car and begins his journey on winding roads to the village. After 90 minutes of driving, he encounters an intersection with a traffic light. Upon seeing the bottom of the light glowing brightly, he continues through the intersection.

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Patient Safety

ARQH: What Is Your Organization’s Patient Safety Culture?

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ARQH

What Is Your Organization’s Patient Safety Culture?

By Carolyn M. Clancy, MD

Ask any frontline clinician or healthcare support staff if they can identify the components that make up a “culture of patient safety,” and you might get a vague answer in response. But ask those same health providers if they feel they can speak up to report patient safety concerns without fearing retribution, and you’re likely to get very specific responses.

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Technology

Hospira Launhes Enhanced Theradoc™ Clinical Surveillance System to Support Patient Safety and Help Improve Care

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Lake Forest, Illinois, April 1, 2011—Hospira, a leading provider of clinical information and medication delivery technologies, announced the launch of its enhanced TheraDoc™ clinical surveillance system, used by hospitals to help improve patient safety and prevent adverse events such as healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

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Patient Safety

Health Language Signs Agreement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

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Denver, March 31, 2011—Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in medical and administrative terminology management, announced that the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has selected HLI as a preferred vendor to help Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies transition smoothly and efficiently from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline mandated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Risk Management

AAMC Announces “Best Practices for Better Care” Campaign

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Washington, D.C., March 30, 2011—The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) announced a new multi-year effort, Best Practices for Better Care, that harnesses the unique missions of academic medicine—medical education, patient care, and research—and applies them to the challenges of improving quality and safety in health care.

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