Editor’s Notebook
Editor’s Notebook
Ambulatory Practices Join the Conversation
Ambulatory practices find themselves in the patient safety spotlight with increasing frequency, for a number of reasons: more attention is being paid to diagnostic errors, which often trace back to physician practices; with implementation of electronic health records, more data will be available and analyzed for medical care delivered in ambulatory settings; and as improvement efforts in hospitals mature, it simply is time to bring more of healthcare into the safety conversation.
Fortify HIT Contracts with Education and Ethics to Protect Patient Safety, Say Informatics Experts
An original and progressive report on health information technology (HIT) vendors, their customers and patients, published online, makes ground-breaking recommendations for new practices that target the reduction or elimination of tensions that currently mar relationships between many HIT vendors and their customers, specifically with regard to indemnity and error management of HIT systems.
Statewide Initiative Launched to Help Ensure Patients Receive Appropriate High-Tech Diagnostic Imaging Exams
A new initiative launched by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI, www.icsi.org), a nonprofit, health care improvement organization, could save the Minnesota health care community more than $28 million annually, as well as improve patient care and provider groups’ productivity.
HIMSS Launches New CPOE Wiki
FDA Working to Prevent Radiation Overdoses During CT Scans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been investigating reports that patients undergoing computed tomography (CT) brain perfusion scans were accidentally exposed to excess radiation.
First Certified Professionals in Aging Services Risk Management Designated
ECRI Institute and the Center for Aging Services Risk Management (CASRM) announce that 32 participants from aging services organizations around the nation have been designated as Certified Professionals in Aging Services Risk Management (CPASRM) by the Center for Aging Services Risk Management.
Top U.S. Academic Medical Center Installs Teletacking Tranfercenter™ Software
New Service To Address CT Radiation Dose Safety
The American Hospital Association Awards the Exclusive AHA Endorsement to AT&T Healthcare Information Exchange Services
Health Language Adds Procedures Category with 40,000 Frequently Used Synonyms to Provider Friendly Terminology
Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in medical terminology management, announced the addition of a procedure category to its provider friendly terminology (PFT) code set that includes 40,000 synonyms, abbreviations and colloquial expressions that are commonly used by healthcare professionals when documenting or searching for patient data.