Call for Nominations: MITSS HOPE Award
IOM Calls for New Regulatory Framework To Replace Flawed 510(k) Medical Device Clearance Process
Washington, DC, July 29, 2011—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should gather the information needed to develop a new regulatory framework to replace the 35-year-old 510(k) clearance process for medical devices, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
ASQ Healthcare Conference Seeks Presenters
Organizations that have demonstrated measurable improvement results are invited to present at ASQ’s Quality Institute for Healthcare, May 21-23, 2012, in Anaheim, Calif. Deadline for submissions is Sept. 5, 2011.
The Leapfrog Group Will Publicly Report on Nursing Excellence
July 27, 2011 – In recognition of a growing body of studies highlighting the key role nurses’ play in patient safety, The Leapfrog Group announced they will publicly report on hospitals that have demonstrated nursing excellence on Leapfrog’s annual hospital survey.
HLI Launches Latest Provider Friendly Terminology Solution Upgrade
Denver, Colorado, July 26, 2011 — Health Language, Inc.® (HLI), the global leader in medical terminology management, announced that it has expanded its provider friendly technology (PFT) solution to over 120,000 terms in addition to the existing terms used by SNOMED-CT and ICD.
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RFID SHOWCASE: Fewer Events, Better Reporting
RFID SHOWCASE
Fewer Events, Better Reporting
Patient safety event-reporting systems are found in all hospitals and are a mainstay of efforts to detect potentially critical events and quality problems. Initial reports usually come from the personnel directly involved in an event or the actions leading up to it, such as the nurse or physician caring for a patient when an error occurred, rather than management or patient safety professionals.
Trends
Trends
When Nurses Hurt Nurses
Seventy-three percent of adult women found workplace bullying to be “common” or “very common.” The same women reported that weekly, they are, on average, a bully 1.5 times, a victim of bullying 1.8 times and a bystander to bullying nearly 7 times.
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In Pursuit of a Patient-Centered VA Prescription Label
In Pursuit of a Patient-Centered VA Prescription Label
The patient-centered prescription label movement has roots in primary research studies by notable health literacy proponents (Davis et al., 2006; Davis et al., 2008; Shrank et al., 2007; Sharnk, Avorn et al., 2007). This foundational work paved the way for setting standards for prescription label formats, content, lexicon, and numeracy interpretation.