ECRI Institute Releases Top 10 Healthcare Technology Issues for 2015
The latest healthcare technologies and care process innovations are pounding on hospital doors and looking through windows—and they want in. Will they actually improve patient care or inflate hospital budgets for infrastructure, capital equipment, and physician preference items?
ABMRS to Offer Professional Credential in Magnetic Resonance Safety
Experts in magnetic resonance safety have formed a new organization, the American Board of Magnetic Resonance Safety (ABMRS), to provide testing and certification for professionals working with magnetic resonance.
Is Incivility an Underlying Threat to Safety in Obstetrics?
Disruptive behavior? Perhaps these examples do not meet everyone’s threshold. However, few would deny that incivility characterizes these real anecdotal interactions, which occurred in labor and delivery. In 2007, a study of disruptive behavior in labor and delivery units on the West Coast of the United States found that 61% of nurse managers felt that disruptive behavior was currently occurring on their unit (Veltman, 2007).
Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety Relaunches to Improve Patient Safety
Named for a Boston Globe reporter who died after a chemotherapy dosing error 20 years ago, Massachusetts’s Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction has once again opened its doors with a revitalized mission to reduce medical errors and increase patient safety.
New Coalition Focuses on Continuous Patient Monitoring
Matt Whitman, a retired Michigan state trooper, strode to the lectern at the front of the room in downtown Chicago and made a startling announcement: “On April 17, 2003, I died.”
Colorado Health Plans Collaborate to Create Data-sharing Solution for Care Providers
Seven health plans in Colorado are collaborating on a multi-payer data-sharing online tool that aims to enhance and improve the delivery of care for Colorado residents.
Studies Show Physician Empathy Increases Patient Satisfaction and Outcomes
Is empathy a core component of “evidence-based medicine”? One prominent researcher and author in the area of empathy in patient care argues that the answer is unequivocally “yes” and says that it can and should be evaluated, taught, and sustained, as studies show a high correlation between patient satisfaction and outcomes with empathy scores.
PSO Leaders Partner to Improve Patient Care
The Midwest Alliance for Patient Safety (MAPS) and ECRI Institute, two patient safety organization (PSO) leaders, are combining their synergies to help guide the transformation of patient care in Illinois and beyond.
Cooley Dickinson Hospital Renews Contract for DebMed Hand Hygiene Monitoring System
DebMed has announced a three-year agreement with Cooley Dickinson Hospital for the use of its Group Monitoring System (GMS), the only electronic hand hygiene monitoring system that complies with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Five Moments for Hand Hygiene and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
Incident Reporting
Recent features, columns and news articles on incident reporting from Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: