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Patient Safety

INTEGRIS Health’s Palm Scanner Increases Patient Safety

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

INTEGRIS Health is the first health care system in Oklahoma to use a new biometric palm scanner to both streamline the registration process and accurately identify patients.

Patient Safety

NorthShore University HealthSystem and Mayo Clinic to Collaborate

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

NorthShore University HealthSystem (NorthShore) and Mayo Clinic have announced NorthShore as a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. This collaboration, the only one of its kind in the Chicago region, will provide NorthShore patients with access to medical resources and experts from both systems working together on their behalf. The agreement formalizes a long-standing relationship between the two institutions.

Risk Management

Emergency Department Pearls Focus on Risk Management

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

The updated Risk Management Pearls for the Emergency Department from the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) is packed with practical tips on how to minimize liability exposures inherit in this high-risk environment.

Technology

IQMAX Offers Communication Suite for Smartphones and Tablets

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

IQMAX, a leader in intelligent healthcare communications, has launched IQCommunicate®, a complete suite of products specifically designed for healthcare professionals to securely communicate and collaborate in real-time for better care coordination.

Patient Safety

Call for Letters of Intent to Conduct Research in Patient Safety

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

The National Patient Safety Foundation’s Research Grants Program seeks to stimulate new, innovative projects directed toward enhancing patient safety in the United States. The program’s objective is to promote studies leading to the prevention of human errors, system errors, patient injuries and the consequences of such adverse events in the health care setting.

Accreditation & Regulation

Joint Commission Names Top Performing U.S. Hospitals

September 25, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

“Improving America’s Hospitals: The Joint Commission Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012,” includes 620 hospitals that are leading the way nationally in using evidence-based care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes. The hospitals identified as attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability performance in 2011 represent approximately 18 percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting core measure performance data.

Technology

RadNet Joins GE Healthcare to Evaluate Breast Cancer Detection Processes

September 20, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

GE Healthcare (a business division of General Electric Company) announced on September 18 it is joining with RadNet, a network of outpatient diagnostic imaging centers, to pilot its Best Pathways initiative, a breast cancer detection optimization model.

Patient Safety

AHRQ Patient Safety Project Reduces Bloodstream Infections by 40%

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

A unique nationwide patient safety project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reduced the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units by 40 percent, according to the agency’s preliminary findings of the largest national effort to combat CLABSIs to date.

Technology

Text to Speech Audio Upgrade Improves Communication

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

TextSpeak has released the TTS-EM-HD2, a small yet all-inclusive voice synthesis paging and announcement product. Targeted to deploy with unified hospital communications, the stand-alone package requires only a single digital input signal to produce spoken audio.

Technology

Advocate Health Care and GE Healthcare Join to Reduce Patient CT Radiation Dose

September 12, 2012 ‐ Brooke Schmidt

Advocate Health Care, one of the nation’s top health systems and the largest integrated health care system in the state of Illinois, and GE Healthcare, a national leader in low dose, high performance imaging, have announced a joint effort to help further reduce radiation dose in Computed Tomography (CT).