CommonWell Health Alliance Grows Toward Nationwide Interoperability
CommonWell Health Alliance has added five new members that significantly enhance the association’s nationwide footprint, share of the EHR marketplace, and diversity across the care continuum. MEDITECH, Merge, and Kareo join as contributing members while PointClickCare and Surgical Information Systems (SIS) join as general members. With the addition of these new members, CommonWell membership now … Continued
Alarm Hazards Top ECRI’s Annual List of Top Patient Safety Concerns
Patient safety is a top priority for every healthcare organization, but knowing where to direct initiatives can be daunting. To help organizations decide where to focus their efforts, ECRI Institute has compiled its second annual list of the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations.
ANA Panel Aims to Prevent Violence, Bullying in Healthcare Facilities
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has convened a panel of experts to make recommendations on preventing and reducing workplace violence, bullying, and incivility, behaviors identified by research as particular problems in healthcare settings.
Inova Fairfax Medical Center Uses Qstream Mobile Platform to Improve Patient Safety
Qstream, maker of mobile software that helps expand healthcare professionals’ skills in just minutes a day, has announced that Inova Fairfax Medical Center (IFMC) in Virginia and its newly opened Advanced Surgical Technology and Education Center (ASTEC) are using Qstream’s mobile, game-based platform to drive improved patient safety and clinical knowledge among an interdisciplinary operating room (OR) … Continued
Humana Works to Simplify Population Health
As part of its continued strategic endeavor to help healthcare systems, physicians, and care teams transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement models, Humana Inc. has formed Transcend and Transcend Insights. “Transcend Insights, through Certify, Anvita and nliven, has operated in the healthcare information technology industry by serving as a trusted partner to physicians and their care teams” With … Continued
Obama Administration Releases National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Despite antibiotics’ powerful ability to save millions of lives each year, drug resistant bacteria are a growing problem, making the treatment and prevention of diseases more difficult.
PDI Announces Call for Entries for Delivering the Difference Contest
PDI, a leader in infection prevention products and solutions, has launched Delivering the Difference, a contest recognizing industry professionals who display excellence in building collaborative relationships between infection prevention and environmental services teams in healthcare facilities.
Nominations Open for Gustav O. Lienhard Award
The Gustav O. Lienhard Award, established in 1986, is presented annually by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in honor of Gustav O. Lienhard, chairman of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Board of Trustees form 1971 to 1986.
MobileView Analytics Helps Improve Healthcare Decisions
STANLEY Healthcare, the KLAS Category Leader for Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS), will showcase MobileView Analytics, the visual business intelligence platform for its AeroScout Real-Time Location System (RTLS) solutions, at HIMSS 2015.
Inspire Releases Experts by Experience 2015
Inspire has published “Experts by Experience 2015: A compilation of patients’ stories,” a special report developed in cooperation with Stanford Medicine.